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Frumladygit – it’s wise not to take midrashim too literally. They were meant to be metaphorical statements about hashkafah. Check out R’ Aharon Feldman’s “The Juggler and the King,” where he interprets the Vilna Gaon’s short work on the nonliteralness of Aggadata. BTW, he’s definitely mainstream, as he’s Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore. i’m pretty sure the GRA was also mainstream, but I’m sure there are those that would dispute that too 😉