דרכי הפרשנות של רש"י לתורה וייחודם על פי פירושו לבראשית א, א

The research presents new insights in the first Rashi on the Torah that sheds light on Rashi's entire commentary to the Torah. It shows that this commentary contains three parts that interact with each other. It comes to define the Torah as a book of law in contrast to the prophets and scriptures. Dissection of the various parts of the commentary reveals additional conceptual elements. One of them involves an innovative understanding of the word "Bereshit". It continues to explain the historical background that was main reason Rashi wrote his commentary to the Torah.The Torah commentary intended to help Jewish Society culturally and spiritually. However, there was also a special historical reason that Rashi opened his commentary with this unique introduction to the way he saw the Torah and its contents. Through the prism of the first paragraph of Rashi’s commentary on the Torah a new insight into the methodology of Rashi’s commentary on the Torah is revealed. In any case, the existence of terms and expressions which in themselves imply direct exegetic awareness; expressions such as "The Torah 'spoke' as if in the present" or "The Torah 'spoke' as if in the language of human beings", in themselves prove awareness to an exegetic process, which in itself is the basis to the distinctions between methodologies.