[Avodah] Interesting Insight on Noach

[Zev Sero]

On 18/10/17 09:37, Richard Wolberg via Avodah wrote:
> However, just today
> as I was studying various commentaries, I came across the following amazing
> account in Tanchuma, R’eh, 3.
> 
>  From the moment that God gave the Torah, it is only he who sins that will be punished,
> though before that, the whole generation was responsible for the sin of the individual.
> Thus there were many righteous men swept away with the deluge in the time of Noah.
> Hence, since Noah was the “most” righteous, he was spared although the other righteous
> were not, as a consequence of collective guilt at that time.

According to R Avin, what was Avraham's argument, "chalila lach"?  If 
that had been Hashem's SOP for the past 2050 years, and would be for 
another 400, why didn't He just tell Avraham "Yes, this is how I do things"?

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