[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Arie Folger]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> You want to say that his problem with saying that
> shamayim were created in the beginning is that we are still running with
> the hava amina that they were created on the second day, and only in
> chapter 2 will we discover that it wasn't so.  But how could we form
> that hava amina in the first place, when the very first time the chumash
> tells us they were created on the second day Rashi hastens to inform us
> that they weren't?   *Where* are you getting this whole concept from?

That is in 1:6, and shows that Rashi was already planting the seeds
for 2:4. Rashi is quite an educator. But in 1:1, he is still trying to
convince us that heaven and earth were not created on the first,
because that would be incongruous.

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