‘ultimate’ interpretations we discover today. On a personal level, provided I do not become awed into silence by such a tradition, it offers a firm controlling discipline to my own wilder readings. My teacher, Rav (Rabbi) Shmuel Sperber, used to get terribly anxious when he discovered a hiddush, a new idea or reading, and would rush to the great commentators of the past to find someone who had discovered it before. You have to have known the man to realize the delightful mixture of humour, self-deprecation