Timeline for Why does Rashi cite the Midrash of Pharaoh's daughter stretching out her arm?
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| Oct 16, 2016 at 16:31 | history | edited | mevaqesh |
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| Oct 16, 2016 at 16:30 | comment | added | mevaqesh | I am removing tags that refer to incidental items in the question, which the question is not about. | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 1:39 | answer | added | Joseph | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 5:59 | comment | added | הנער הזה | judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/6103/is-rashi-really-pshat | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 5:51 | history | edited | Seth J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Striking the distracting line that is part of my thought process but not the core question.
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| Jan 4, 2015 at 14:41 | comment | added | הנער הזה | Despite Rashi's own comments in this regard, it probably isn't true that his only motivation for citing midrashim is in order to answer a question in peshat. See vbm-torah.org/archive/parshanut/05parshanut.htm and subsequent articles in that series | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 22:15 | answer | added | fromwhereveritcomes | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 3:11 | history | edited | Menachem | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 14, 2013 at 2:03 | answer | added | Menachem | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 13, 2013 at 20:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/356141835141386241 | ||
| Jul 12, 2013 at 21:05 | answer | added | josh waxman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:24 | history | edited | Seth J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:19 | comment | added | Seth J | @IsaacMoses, yeah, I couldn't help wondering what Bonchek would say (although, not by name; I didn't know his name until now). | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:18 | history | edited | Seth J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:13 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @SethJ, Socratic comments FTW! I wonder if Dr. Avigdor Bonchek or R' josh waxman have something to say about it. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:12 | history | edited | Seth J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:10 | comment | added | Seth J | @IsaacMoses, I just looked at Rashi now (I knew that it was cited by him, but I wasn't looking at it at the moment that I made my comment). He does definitely cite the Midrash - after giving my Peshat. This might make the new version of the question the better one. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:08 | comment | added | Seth J | @IsaacMoses, fair enough; should I reword it, "why does Rashi feel the need to cite the Midrash?" | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:05 | comment | added | Seth J | @msh210, regarding וַתִּקָּחֶהָ, I didn't say there's anything wrong, just that the Pasuk eliminates an awkward word (that it made awkward by assuming it's her arm), but left this word seeming ... less natural. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:04 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @SethJ, really? I've certainly heard that assumption about Rashi in his choice to quote a midrash, but I thought the point of midrash was was transmit traditional lessons and narratives that are associated with the verses. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | Seth J | @IsaacMoses, of course it isn't giving us Peshat. But my assumption is that - usually - where Midrash comes in is when Peshat is inadequate and calls for Derash to explain it. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 19:05 | history | edited | msh210♦ |
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| Jul 12, 2013 at 19:04 | comment | added | msh210♦ | I don't see anything wrong with "וַתִּקָּחֶהָ" if the pasuk is read as referring to an arm; nor do I understand why you think "וַתִּשְׁלַח" makes more sense for an arm than for a servant. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 18:57 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Are you assuming that the Midrash is attempting to give peshat in the pasuk and not, say, to make some homiletic point or transmit a tradition regarding what happened? | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 18:49 | history | asked | Seth J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |