[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zev Sero]

On 22/11/2010 6:07 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:45:28PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>>> Yom literally means era, as in "lifnei ba yom Hashem hagadol vehanora".
>
>> Huh?  How do you know that isn't a literal day?
>
> Because I am pretty sure that Hashem's explicit reign at the end of history
> will last for more than 24 hours. Similarly, does the pasuq in Zechariah
> that you append to Aleinu speak of Hashem and His Name/Reputation being
> one only for 24 hours? Was Yom Yerushalayim only 24 hours?

I've always assumed that both pesukim refer to the Yom Hadin, which
is surely a literal day.   What makes you think otherwise?



>>> 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?
>
> It means the period in time that included "asos Hashem shamayim va'aretz"
> and "vayitzer H' E-lokim es ha'adam"

Rashi explicitly says otherwise.


-- 
Zev Sero                      The trouble with socialism is that you
zev at sero.name                 eventually run out of other people’s money
                                                      - Margaret Thatcher