[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zev Sero]

On 19/11/2010 1:45 PM, Micha Berger wrote:

> But more importantly, we aren't talking about literal vs allegory.
> Yom literally means era, as in "lifnei ba yom Hashem hagadol vehanora".

Huh?  How do you know that isn't a literal day?   


> Or a more significant example to our case, in Bereishis 2:4, the creation
> era is called a yom -- "beyom asos H' E-lokim eretz veshamayim" --
> not 7 of them!

Doesn't that mean the first day?

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