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On 12/19/2011 7:52 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
<pre wrap="">>This notion that everything happened on day 6 is subject to a machloqes,
and R Yochanan ben Chanina's (Sanhedrin 38b) isn't the only shitah.<
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE">Tsorech
Iyun. The
Rambam does take it as the opinion of ALL the Chachamim.
Perhaps he understands RYbC's shitta to be the final
consensus:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE">"(MN
2:30) The Torah
spoke of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, the thing
of the Snake and
that matter, and it said that this in its entirety was after
Adam was placed in
Gan Eden, and *all the Chachamim agree* that this matter in
its entirety was
the sixth day, and that no matter changed in any way after the
six days of
Breishis. And for this [reason] nothing of those matters is
far-fetched, as we
have said, for until now, Nature was not stabilized."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE">At any
rate, if the
Midrash about the first appearance of flying insects does
exist, to conform it with the principle that nothing new was
created after day six, we can say the Midrash is following
that opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE">Another
approach may
be that the Midrash holds the eventual appearance of these
insects was
consistent with the final laws of nature established before
the first Shabbos.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-language:HE">But of
course, the
proper way to approach this is to first find out if this is a
real Midrash, as
the questioner originally asked. </span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-language:
HE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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