Parsha:

Vayeishev 

Collections: R' Wolfson Tanakh Techniques

Description

At the beginning of parshat Vayeshev the Rashbam makes one of the greatest statements of devotion to peshat of all-time, speaking of the 'new peshat readings which emerge each day'. But why does he wait 37 chapters into Bereishit to make the comment and what does it have to do with the sale of Yosef. We conclude with discussing how the historical context of the commentator may affect the nature of the insight, focusing on the famous argument between Rav Yoel Bin Nun and Rav Yaakov Medan on why Yosef never wrote to Yaakov