Gur aryeh (The Lion’s Whelp): On Rashi’s Commentary on the Pentateuch
Judah Loew
1578
“R. Isaac said, etc.” In Genesis Rabbah it says: “Even though there is not a single superfluous narrative in the Torah—not even ‘the sister of Lotan was Timna’”—for it says in Sanhedrin Chapter ḥelek that the word “Torah” applies only to the commandments of the Torah, inasmuch as the etymology of “Torah” is from hora’ah [“instruction”], i.e., to…
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