[Avodah] tower of bavel

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Thu Oct 18 13:01:03 PDT 2007


Ilana Sober wrote:

> This means that Peleg lived from 101 years post flood until 340 years
> post flood.
> Therefore, the Midrash posits that Migdal Bavel occurred at the very
> end of Peleg's life. One of these days I should look it up and figure
> out why. But the pshat of chumash doesn't give any indication when in
> his life it happened - it could have been a few hundred years earlier.


See Rashi Ber 10:25


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