Study Rosh Hashanah folio 12A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
But because the people changed their actions for the worse, God changed for them the acts of Creation and He caused the constellation of Kima to rise during the day, and He removed two stars from it and He brought a flood to the world.
The Talmud asks: Granted, according to R' Yehoshua, who holds that the Flood began in the month of Iyyar, this is as it is written: “In the second month,” which is referring to the month of Iyyar, the 2nd month from Nisan. But according to R' Eliezer, who holds that the Flood began in the month o
The Talmud asks further: Granted, according to R' Yehoshua, who holds that the Flood began in the month of Iyyar, this is what it means that He changed the acts of Creation with a flood, as rain does not usually fall in Iyyar. But according to R' Eliezer, who holds that the Flood began in Marḥeshv
The Talmud answers: Even according to R' Eliezer a change was made, in accordance with the statement of Rav Ḥisda, as Rav Ḥisda said: They sinned with boiling heat, and they were punished with boiling heat; they sinned with the boiling heat of the sin of forbidden sex, and they were punished with th
A baraita states: The Jewish rabbis count the years from Creation and the Flood in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer, from Tishrei, and they calculate the cycles of the sun and the moon in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehoshua, from Nisan. The rabbis of the non-Jew non-Jewish nations,