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| | Parashat Noach - Rabbi Pinchas Frankel |
 | | For the water-containing region described by "me'al la'rakia," "above the firmament," may be one and the same with the region of the ice-bearing comets which struck and delivered oceans of water to pre-atmospheric earth, namely outer space, in agreement with one view. |
 | | And when Hashem did cause an atmosphere, the "rakia" - "firmament," to form, there was indeed a "havdalah," a "separation," between the two regions, the region external to the earth, namely outer space, the region of the comets, and the region within and upon the earth, the region of the volcanoes and the oceans. |
 | | As the verse says, "And G-d made the firmament, and it divided between the waters below the firmament and the waters above the firmament; And so it was. |
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