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Answer by josh waxman for What does Rashi mean with "our Rabbis expounded...
Rashi famously only channels a specific kind of midrash, and will omit others if it doesn't also work well on a peshat level. He discusses this on Bereishit 3:8, with hearing Hashem walking in the...
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He means there's a famous Midrash about it, but he doesn't necessarily see that as the simple explanation (or at least critical to the basic narrative). "What about the midrashic reading? Yeah, there's...
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B"HIn Ester 1:7 when it mentions how the feast had different"vessels", Rashi gives his explanation, then finishes off "our Rabbis expounded what they expounded", a very peculiar language in...
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