A really special girl, Rachelit Mitnick asked a great question last year. If Hashem was completely destroying the world out side of the tevah why did he decide to make it take 40 days? In the end everyone would be dead anyways whether the mabul was a second, an hour, one day, three days, or thirty. What is significant about the number 40? [Great question! Who thinks of that?]. Rav Zvi Ron an amazing Rabbi said that a possible answer is that forty days is the amount of time were something can go from one state to another. This number comes up when discussing the topic of abortion. A fetus before forty days has a very different status then a fetus of 40 days and above. The number forty is common throughout our Torah so it is interesting to think about the different connections they may have with each other. Having the mabul for forty days was Hashem’s way of “re creating” the world. It was like a “rebirth” of our world.
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