[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Arie Folger]

I won't relate to the larger question of the meaning of yom, since RMB
is doing a very able job. I relate only to Tehillim 92.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> Why would this song be sung on Shabbos?  In pshat, I don't have to
> answer that.  It just is, because it says so.

Given I suggested a rather cogent way to understand the linkage
between the superscription and the content of teh psalm, and shown
that that is entirely in line with the Mishna, which line of thought
do you find more attractive:
* The superscription definitely means it's the designated psalm for
Shabbos, and therefore, we have no clue what links the superscription
to the psalm, as it is thematically totally unrelated to Shabbos;
* or: we follow the midrashic teaching of the mishna as peshat, since
it fits perfectly with the peshat of the thematic content of the psalm
?

You know, I am a peshat kind of guy, but I see over and over again
that much of Midrash is plain peshat. Chazal were some of the most
astute, profound students of peshat; we just have to open our eyes and
listen very tightly, because their way of expression is sometimes
cryptic.


Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger,
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