[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zev Sero]

On 16/11/2010 4:41 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:38:02PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote to Areivim:
>> On 16/11/2010 2:29 PM, Micha Berger wrote:

>>> As to the chareidi portrayal... What chareidi, no matter how moderate,
>>> would claim the flood was local?

>> My zaida z"l, who was quite charedi, saw no reason to believe the flood
>> was global.  Indeed, there *must* be room in everyone's theology for
>> belief in a non-global flood, since there's a valid opinion that EY was
>> not flooded.
  
> I didn't say "non-global", I said local.

OK.  IIRC, my zaida told me this in response to my question about
the Ararat mountains being much lower than the Himalayas.  He asked,
how did I know the flood reached India?  If humans were confined to
Western Asia then there was no reason for anywhere else to be flooded,
and the Ararat mountains (the Kurdish mountains, as Onkelos calls them)
may well be the highest in that region.

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