Reply To: Died by sneezing

Thanks, HaLeivi. Good solid explanations there.

I still think it’s likely that people got sick, just perhaps not life-threatening illnesses, which does make sense on a general level. Again, this is Yakov we’re talking about, so I think it’s entirely possible this whole discussion only relates to those on a high enough level. And even then, it’s not always in the cards, as we know there are plenty of great people who die suddenly, today.

This whole connection of the neshama being “blown in through the nose”… This is obviously anthropomorphic, as the neshama isn’t a tangible thing that can be blown through anything. But the logic behind it holds.

Pekak- Interesting. So before the mabul, there were no seasonal changes on earth? Or they were somehow different? Please enlighten me on this, because from what little I understand, life on earth literally couldn’t exist without the seasons’ changes due to earth’s tilted axis.