[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Zev Sero]

On 1/12/2010 12:51 PM, Arie Folger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Zev Sero<zev at sero.name>  wrote:
>> So you keep saying, but where are you getting it from?
>
> Let's be brief. Rashi in 1:1 is arguing that the reading of bereishit
> ... shamayim vaaretz would mean "in teh beginning, G"d created heaven
> and earth" is untenable.

Yes.  But he gives his reason, and it is *not*, as you claim, that the
shamayim were created on the second day.  He gives his reason explicitly;
why do you feel the need to invent a completely different reason out of
whole cloth, especially one that's much simpler than the one he gives,
and therefore that he must have considered and rejected?


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