Yeshive Bochers (Jewish divinity students) love to formulate difficult questions to their teachers. For example: How did an Australian marsupial like the kanguru travel to Mount Ararat and take his reserved seat in the Ark? Flying Quantas? Rabbi, how was that?
Rabbi Moshe Leib the Cohen Halberstadt has the answer. It goes like that: You know that there is a process called evolution in nature. Yes, Darwinian evolution. There are "initial", antediluvian animals that were in the Ark and survived the flood. There are other animals that were not in the Ark but evolved from the survivors. Now, is the kanguru an antediluvian, initial, root animal, or it evolved after the flood? The distinction is unimportant, the fact is that Australia is full of jumping kangurus, so it definitely must have been one or the other.
BTW, the kanguru meat is not kosher.
Bereishit Rabba says that the Land of Israel was not flooded.
ReplyDeleteMake your own conclusions.
What do you mean? That the kanguru is native to the Land of Israel? Or that Australia is the Land of Israel?
ReplyDeleteIf the Land was not submerged, neither were other places which were as high or higher. The Flood was a Mesopotamian event (probably paralleled by other similar ones worldwide.) Lots of speculation now about sudden drastic climate events driven by meteor strikes or a coronal ejection, with evidence like water damage on the Sphinx...
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