[Avodah] Birds & Fish in the Mabul

[Zev Sero]

On 26/10/2011 11:02 AM, shalomyitz at comcast.net wrote:
> Why didn't the fish have to die in the mabul?

Fish don't mate with each other; the female lays her eggs, and then
the male fertilises them.  So the whole inyan of interspecies znus
doesn't apply to them.


> And, why did the birds have to be on the teva?  Couldn't they
> just fly above the flood?

For a year?!  Not even a vulture or a condor can do that!

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