This ban is honestly ridiculous לפי עניות דעתי.ֶ I would like to give an example from the beginning of this week’s parsha ויצא. The pasuk says ויקח מאבני המקום וישם מראשותיו and then it says ויקח את האבן. Rashi who usually will comment from midrashic literature in this case chullin 91b says that he initially took many stones and then they fought עלי יניח צדיק את ראשו and ה׳ subsequently made them all join into one large stone. We were all taught this midrash as kids. Tosfos on that gemara as well as ALL the pashtanim on the pasuk (rashbam, ibn ezra, bchor shor, radak etc) all say that pshuto shel mikra is that Yaakov took one stone from stones of the area. So the whole question never begins. Now according to these ban signatories, this pshat is kefira since it disagrees with Rashi and the gemara. Horrific. I’ve got news for you, Rashi and Ramban will sometimes dismiss the midrash and favor pshat. An example of Rashi doing that is on the words כברת ארץ bereishis 35:16 and Ramban does it on the words מערת המכפלה.ֶ should we ban Rashi and Ramban too??
I’ve read the sefer quite a bit and I don’t recall one controversial pshat; they purposely avoided them and there are quite a few of them from rishonim.
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