Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 7:16 adds a single detail to the biblical verse that changes the entire picture. The creatures entered, male and female, of all flesh, just as the Holy One had commanded. And then, the Targum says, the Word of the Lord covered over the door of the ark upon the face thereof.
Read that again slowly. Noah does not slam the hatch. His sons do not nail the door shut. The Memra, the Word of the Lord — the same divine Voice that spoke the world into being — personally seals the door. The hand that opened the heavens closes the ark.
This is Pseudo-Jonathan's signature move. The Aramaic Targums, composed in the centuries around the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, often slip the Memra into places where the Hebrew text simply says "the Lord." It guards against imagining God with hands and fingers while still insisting God is personally present. Here that theology becomes tender. The last gesture before the Flood is not Noah protecting his family — it is the Creator tucking them in. The takeaway: sometimes the holiest thing anyone can do is let the Holy One close the door for them.