Cytowanie Komentarza do Ezechiela 34:2

And Rashi explained that Joseph reported how [his brothers] ate a limb from a living animal, were suspected of illicit relations, and degraded the children of the handmaids. It seems appropriate to provide some textual support for his words, because it states he was shepherding his brothers with the flock. Why is this [phrasing] necessary? Would we have thought he was shepherding birds or fish? Rather, it is because we find the term “shepherding” used in four contexts: 1. Simple shepherding of sheep, 2. Regarding illicit relations, as it states one who shepherds prostitutes will lose wealth (Proverbs 29:3), 3. The term shepherding applies to those in authority and leadership of the people, as it states Shepherd of Israel, listen (Psalms 80:2), 4. The term shepherding applies to one who goes to “shepherd himself” and eats from the flock, as it states Should not the shepherds feed the flock? (Ezekiel 34:2) And as Rashi explained, there is a dot over the word et [in the original verse]. And since it states that Joseph was shepherding the flock with his brothers, it implies that his brothers were “shepherding” in all four ways that the term can be used, but he did not agree with them except regarding the actual shepherding of sheep alone. If this were not the case, the verse could have simply stated “Joseph and his brothers were shepherding the flock.” Rather, certainly the word et serves as [the word meaning] “with,” and therefore singled out Joseph to tell you that he only agreed with them regarding the shepherding of the flock alone, but his brothers shepherded in all [four ways]. For which of these [interpretations] would you exclude to limit [the meaning], as the verse did not come to conceal but to explain.