[Avodah] Local, Non-Global or Global Flood

[Arie Folger]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> 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?

Both are equivalent. The point is, in 1:1, Rashi tells you it is
incongruous to posit that heaven and earth were created on the first
day. Later, he develops an alternate explanation, which is also
implicitly a response to his objections in 1:1.


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