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Teruma | Just a Vav: Rashi and Textual Criticism
Teruma | Just a Vav: Rashi and Textual Criticism, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
Why is Rashi explaining a "Vav" that isn't there? (Shemot 25:22).
Rashi's comment on Shemot 25:22, explaining the letter "vav" in the word ואת as being superfluous, has raised eyebrows over the centuries...since in our Sifrei Torah, the word is את, without a Vav. We identify other Rishonim who apparently had that reading in their text of the Torah and then review those supercommentaries of Rashi who addressed this unusual note. This leads us to a discussion of the phenomenon of textual variants in Tanakh and the fact…
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