Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 8:4 plants the ark on a very specific patch of earth. In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day, in the month the Targum calls Nisan, the great vessel comes to rest upon the mountains of Qadron. And then the Aramaic gets even more local — one peak is named Qardania, the other Irmenia, and between them rises the city of Armenia in the land of the east.
The plain Hebrew says "the mountains of Ararat," but the Targum, composed in late antiquity when Armenian Christians and Persian Jews shared a geography, fills in the map. Qardu is the ancient Aramaic name for the Kurdish mountains. Irmenia is Armenia. The ark, in other words, lands on real earth, at a real border, in a region the Targum's first listeners could point to on a trade route.
This matters. Jewish storytelling refuses to let the Flood become abstract. Noah does not drift into a dream. He drifts into a mountain range that people still climb. The takeaway the Maggid draws: redemption has an address. The new world begins at a named place, on a named day, and we are invited to trust that the places in our own story are just as real in the eyes of heaven.