Biblical and Talmudic Examples
Below are several examples of Peshat's usage in the Bible and Talmud
- The Chaldeans formed three divisions and deployed (ויפשטו) around the camels and seized them. (Job 1:17)
- R. Kahana objected to Mar son of R. Huna: But this refers to the words of the Torah? A verse cannot depart from its plain meaning (פשוטו), he replied. R. Kahana said: By the time I was eighteen years old I had studied the whole Talmud, yet I did not know that a verse cannot depart from its plain meaning (פשוטו) until today. What does he inform us? That a man should study and subsequently understand. (Talmud, Order Moed, Tractate Shabbat, Folio 63a)
- Others say: According to the Rabbis no question arises, for since the text has once been torn away from its ordinary meaning (פשוטו) it must in all respects so remain. (Talmud, Order Nashim, Tractate Yevamot, Folio 11b)
- Said Raba: Although throughout the Torah no text loses its ordinary meaning (פשוטו), here the gezerah shawah has come and entirely deprived the text of its ordinary meaning (פשוטו). (Talmud, Order Nashim, Tractate Yevamot, Folio 24a)
- If the master of the house stretches (פשט) his hand. (Talmud, Order Moed, Tractate Shabbat, Folio 2a)
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