[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Arie Folger]

RZS wrote:
> "Yom shekulo shabbos" doesn't appear in Tanach.  It appears only
> once in mishnayos, in the last mishneh of Tamid, and that mishneh
> is quoted twice  in Shas.  It's a drosho on "mizmor shir leyom
> hashabbos", where the pshat clearly is a 24-hour day.  I don't see
> how you can use that as a precedent for learning pshat in an
> instance of "yom" in Tanach.

What prompted the drasha? Very simple: Psalm 92 has no connection
whatsoever o Shabbos. It's theme is rasha' vetov lo, to which the
psalmist responds starting with veAta marom ... through the end. [For
details, watch out for the forthcoming RCA Siddur.]

So, since there is no connection between Shabbos and the content of
the psalm, why does it have a superscription that mentions yom
hashabbat? To which the Mishna answers that it is about the yom
shekulo shabbat, i.e., not the weekly Shabbos, but the future,
eternal, messianic sabbatical era.

IOW, this is not a drush, but *plain* *peshat*, unless ... you want to
posit (as some Bible critics do) that there is no connection between
the superscriptions and the psalm they superscript.

-- 
Arie Folger,
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