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

“It’s really weird that you don’t want to reject what you claim is the supposed “mainstream Orthodox approach” to the Rashi (which contradicts a posuk in the Torah)”
What’s surprising about that? I want to be normal.

“while at the same time being OK to with rejecting meforshim you don’t agree with.”
Neither me nor anyone else has ever said this. I don’t think any of us have stated what we personally believe in.

“Neville, you are unwilling to say you are disagreeing with Rashi because never said that Yaacov’s guf is alive forever.
You are also disagreeing with a pasuk in the Torah.”
You need to stop saying this. You can make real arguments and bring other meforshim, but we don’t bring pasukim as proofs. I’m not sure why you keep falling into this trap.

“So on the basis of your social advice I have to accept what you claim is the supposed “mainstream Orthodox approach” to the Rashi”
No, you just have to pretend that you do. Or, at the very least, stop acting like your shittah is the normal one.

“and reject meforshim that say that Yaacov lo mes means that he, or his guf, is spiritually alive.”
Nobody ever said you had to do this. We would all be very happy if you just finally admitted that you’re going like those meforshim and not like Rashi.

“I am curious in what capacity you believe that Yaccov is physically alive.”
I have not thusfar nor do I have any intentions of ever sharing my personal beliefs on this. The one difference in beliefs that I will point out is that when a pirush seems to go against a passuk, I would say you reinterpret the passuk, you would say you reinterpret the pirush. I think that’s the crux of this whole deal.