[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Joshua Waxman]

To bolster your Zeide's peshat, since others are questioning it, I would 
point out that Rav Yonasan Eibeshitz says more or less the same thing,
in terms of considering whether the New World, America, was flooded.
He considers it acceptable to say that it was not, assuming that it was 
uninhabited by humans at that ponit. At least in a hava amina:
To quote from my own translation:
 
http://parsha.blogspot.com/2010/10/rav-yonasan-eibeshutzs-rocket-ship.html
 
"And if so, how could humans have come there before the Deluge to the New World 
without a ship? And if you say that there were no men there, then even the 
Deluge didn't descend there, for it would be to no purpose."On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 
at 12:27:12PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> 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.

 
Of course, he goes on to reject it, because otherwise how is Eretz Yisrael 
considered 

"pure", over other lands. 
 
kol tuv,
josh
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