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| b. Yevamot 63a. |
INTRODUCTION:
Rashi’s commentaries on the Torah are well known. However,
the commentaries on his commentaries - known as supercommentaries - are less
known, even “wholly neglected”. These supercommentaries
or Parshanei Rashi number in the dozens by conservative estimates and
possibly even in the hundreds.[1]
In this article, based extensively in the research by
Professor Eric Lawee[2] of Bar Illan University, we shall explore a sample of different supercommentaries on one single Rashi
commentary on a verse in Genesis.
NOTE: The quotation from Rashi upon which this article is
based may upset sensitive readers. The intention, however, is not to focus on the
subject but rather on the patterns which emerge in the supercommentaries which deal with it.
