pshat
Noun
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pshat (uncountable)
Alternative form of peshat
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In general, Rashi provides the pshat or literal meaning of Jewish texts, while his disciples known as the Tosafot ("additions"), criticized his work and gave more interpretative descriptions of the texts.
The Midrash concentrates somewhat on remez but mostly on derash (Some thinkers divide PaRDeS into pshat, remez, din (law) and sod.