Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz discussing an interesting approach to the Mabul.

R’ Breitowitz highlights logistical challenges to a literal global flood, such as gathering polar bears and all worldwide animals onto the Teivah, and presents Rav David Tzvi Hoffmann’s opinion as a resolution.

The interpretation suggests the flood was regional to the Middle East, aligning the biblical account with observations on animal habitats and pre-Abrahamic lifespans without requiring a worldwide cataclysm.

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Others suggest that just as during Makkas Arov in Mitzrayim, the animals arrived along with their natural habitats beneath them, the same phenomenon may have occurred aboard the Teivah.