אות - רכג

On the matter of people relating before Rabbainu, o.b.m., and praising greatly the commentary of Rashi, and saying that one does not need to learn any other commentary on Scripture according to the plain meaning — because most of the other plain commentators go according to the ways of philosophical investigation, etc.[408] (The meaning is: there are some plain commentators who contradict the words of our Sages o.b.m., and they follow a somewhat philosophical approach in several places. And those plain commentators need not be learned — only the commentary of Rashi, o.b.m.) He answered and said, Rabbainu, o.b.m.: This you do not know — that Rashi, o.b.m., is like a brother to the holy Torah.[409] For all the children in the elementary schools [beis raban] and all of Israel learn the written and oral Torah with the commentary of Rashi. And from this the greatness of Rashi's stature, o.b.m., is understood. 408. RAK: See Chayai Moharan, On Distancing from Philosophical Inquiry, section 3. 409. RAK: See Proverbs 7:4; Shabbos 145a; Sanhedrin 7a.