Neville,
You wrote: “As I mentioned earlier, you seem the most insistent out of all of us in wanting to say that you fully agree with Rashi.”
Nope, I dont care if you believe that Yaacov’s guf is alive. It doesn’t make you an apikorus if you believe that Rashi to mean that Yaacov’s guf is alive, if thats what you were taught. However, I often cannot not respond an argument, unfortunately. But really I shouldn’t anymore. I said what I have to say and that’s it. It only really bothers me that the Lubavitchers use that INTERPRETATION of the Rashi as “proof” that their rebbe can “also be alive after being buried”.
You wrote: “So, I won’t say this person is rejecting Rashi since that bothers you, but at the very least he is rejecting the other meforshim who do interpret Rashi our way (some even arguing on Rashi). It’s a pretty big chiddish to make unless he has sources to back it up.”
That is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. But if you feel that way, well, it applies even more so to you. You are rejecting the meforshim that say that Yaacov is alive spiritually. Since i highly doubt you bothered reading the meforshim that were discussed on the 2 threads, not including the Rashi which we dont agree on the interpretation, the fact is that whatever other mefoiresh they bought up and I looked at the source, NONE of them said that it means that Yaacov’s guf is alive. Maybe there are meforshim that say that Yaacov is alive physically, i didnt see them. But you are rejecting not only those meforshim that say that Yaacov is alive spiritually, you are also rejecting a posuk in the Torah which says that Yaacov died which is worse than “rejecting” meforshim!