Menachem Shmei, it is you who would say eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth because that’s what it says, literally. Like you claim Rashi says Yaacov lo mes so according to you and that’s what he literally meant literally…
I never said Gemarah or pesukim should be reinterpreted, that is your twisting my words. I said that Gemarah (and meforshim) MAY SEEM on the surface to contradict pesukim but in reality they are not contradicions. When you learn things in context they come together beautifully and nothing can ever contradict a posuk in the Torah. Rashi will explain a pesuk, never contradict it.
As I’ve said repeatedly, everything has to be learnt in context. You cannot take words and text out of context and use that to “prove” anything.
The reason you believe that Rashi meant Yaacov lo mes literally as if Yaacov Avinu’s body is breathing and doing all other bodily functions as well as he’s eating and even catching some sleep all the while being buried in his kever is only because you want to be able to say your rebbe is physically alive today. That is your purpose in claming Yaacov Avinu is physically alive…and since I don’t believe that, that makes me in your eyes an apikorus, lol. Your mental twisting of logic would be really funny if it weren’t for the purposes of avodah zora which makes it really sad.