[Avodah] growing grapes

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:56:23PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
: This assumes that the vineyard starts with a graft. Is there any
: discussion of how plants grew again after the flood? Did Noah take
: seeds on board grafts or something else?
: Chumash only discusses animal life and not plant life

The chumash leaves it implied. The olive tree survived the flood,
proving it ended. It would seem that plants were unaffected.

Which goes some way to showing that the archeology isn't a trivial
question.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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