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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>RSP wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Any attempt to make sense of this midrash
scientifically is completely misconceived; the midrash is not a scientific
description of anything--it is a mashal (which for Hazal means a figurative use
of language, allegory, parable, metaphor, etc.). For an example of a parshan (a
rishon) who approaches this midrash in non-literal terms, see the Ramban on
Bereshit 1:14 (toward the end). IIRC correctly, Rav Dessler (aharon) has
something non-literal on this too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>CM responds:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So I think we are on the same page. I was just
hitting you over the head with a reason not to read the medrash literally and
seek some other meaning in it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kol Tuv</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Chaim Manaster</FONT></DIV>
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