[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zev Sero]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> In both cases, the words seem very straightforward. ("Look! It says 'one
> day'!" and "Look! It says 'the whole earth'!") But it is only upon deeper
> investigation do we come to realize that we are not forced to take the
> words literally, and that it can be legitimate to take them rhetorically.

The problem with taking "yom" non-literally is not that it doesn't fit
the words, but that it undermines the basis for Shabbos.  If Hashem
worked for six aeons and then rested on the seventh, why can't I say
I'll work for six decades and then rest for the seventh?

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Zev Sero                      The trouble with socialism is that you
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