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I always thought to say that it seems that animals before the mabul were of higher intelligence than the animals after the mabul (for example, the Nachash by the Eitz HaDaas, the issue of eating animals before the mabul, and the fact that they were meZaveg with other minim).
Therefore at this last time before the animals went into the teivah, the Torah calls them Ish VeIshto, to denote the final point when animals were on this higher level.
Maybe there was even a concept of “ish VeIsha” among animals before the mabul?
Don’t mean to go off topic slightly, but which parshios do you all think is the hardest to lein in terms of preparation? I have always found the following difficult to lein:
Vayetzei, Vaera, Tazria. Any others?
Never found it that hard, you have to concentrate on the opening Reviei, and all flows well from there. I actually find the hardest part to lein at a normal pace, I am so used to going fast on Simchas Torah to speed everything along on the 8th, 9th, 10th time around.
yungerman1 – You remind me of a funny story, when I was a kid I once heard a baal korei mistakenly do the Taanis yud gimmel midos on Shabbos Chol HaMoed! You would be shocked how many people followed and said the yud gimmel middos out loud!
I heard a shiur from Rav Belsky on this gemara.
His pshat was that the machlokes was if the sun goes around the earth (Chachmei Umos HaOlam) or if the earth rotates daily (Chachmei Yisroel). Of course, we now know that the Chachmei Yisroel are indeed correct.
What the gemara means that the sun goes above the Rakiah according to the Chachmei Yisroel, is that if the earth is rotating, nightime occurs when the earth rotates away from the sun. So the sun is “on top” of the sky, because we are below.