Reply To: I Guess I’m Pulling for the “Chabad Media” Now?

“I said you can bring a rishon on a posuk too but they don’t contradict the Torah. They expound and explain the Torah.”

Yes, we all agree to this in theory. However, what you’re actually saying time and time again is that rishonim are not allowed to contradict the pashut pshat of the Torah, except in certain cases where you personally have deemed it okay because you’re comfortable with it. If it gets too eeby jeeby for you (eg. dead people not actually being dead), you need to find a new interpretation to console yourself and then try to force that personal interpretation on people who were born and raised Jewish with the normative way of learning it.

You can interpret Rashi differently than us. I’m not arguing on your lomdus, just on the shameless gaavah that goes into telling 6 or 7 people and apparently also the Artscroll that they were all taught wrong and that your own personal interpretation is the only legitimate one.