[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zev Sero]

On 24/11/2010 5:36 AM, Arie Folger wrote:

> I actually believe that Rashi "disagrees" with himself when comparing
> his comment on beyom and on 1:1. On 1:1, he argues that we cannot take
> it literally that in the beginning G"d created heaven and earth, since
> heaven was only created on the second day.

No he doesn't.  Look it up again.  The reason he gives for rejecting
the possibility that 1:1 tells us that the sky and the earth were
created before anything else, is that water must have been created
before the earth, and both fire and water must have been created before
the sky.  And on 1:6 he explicitly says that the sky was created on
the first day.  He repeats the same point, that everything was really
created on the first day, on 1:14 and 1:24.  By the time we get to 2:4
we already know well that this is what he holds, and now we finally get
to see his proof.

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