Noah was a righteous man in his generation. Rashi comments that because of these words, some praise Noah, stating that even in his generation, he was great - how much greater would he have been in the times of Abraham when it was easier to be good. Others see it as a criticism of Noah,

Throughout the account of Creation, when God brings something into being, He simply sates: let there be eg. let there be light, let there be firm ground etc but in creating the human being, God says let us make man. Human beings are an unfinished product, we don't just come into being but rather we are

You shall take for yourself on the first day a fruit…After the High Holidays, comes the festival of sukkot when we bring together four species that resemble four parts of the body. The lulav-palmis likened to the spine, the etrog-citron fruit to the heart, the hadasim - myrtle to the eyes and the aravot- willow