[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zvi Lampel]

On 11/30/2010 2:27 PM, Arie Folger wrote:
> Again, if you ask me "can one reinterpret," my answer is no.
Then we agree.
>   If the
> question, however, is whether the Torah may utilize secondary meanings
> of words, allegory and metaphor, the answer is a clear yes,
Again, then we agree. This is clearly what the sources I quoted said.
>   and in a
> manner of illustration, I just refer to the gemara in 'Hullin, dibru
> hakhtuvim belashon havai. I agree that doesn't give me or you licence
> to just redefine things as lashon havai at will, but the presence of
> lashon havai is an established fact, in 'Humash, no less.
Then we totally agree. Baruch Hashem! I must have misunderstood you. Why 
did you consider this "another way of looking at it," when it's 
identical to what I quoted the sources as saying?

Zvi Lampel