Hello,

I have been looking around at different websites, one is a debate about R Alshich. And it states that the debate has the original quote of the Rabbi, which I find interesting when not too many websites have this information.

It basically quotes R Alshich as saying:   "[Isaiah 52:13] Behold, my servant shall prosper... [Alshech:] I therefore, in my humility, am come after them; [the commentators], not with any sense of the wisdom I am about to utter, but merely with the object of applying to its elucidation a straightforward method, in accordance with the literal sense of the text... I may remark, then, that our Rabbis with one voice accept and affirm the opinion that the prophet is speaking of the King Messiah, and we shall ourselves adhere to the same view."

This puts a question into this debate that R. Alshich was interpreting the text as literal (Pshat), not as a Midrash. Also, it presents a question as to his interpretation being a singular person as suffering servant, not national Israel. And also it presents a question as to Moshe and David being Messiah, since they were literal persons.

And although you posit a firm answer that the Rabbi mentioned it as MY rabbis, meaning a smaller select group, which means not all rabbis who believed this, still does not address the point that a singular person in Isaiah 53 was more widely believed. Do you have an answer for this? Thanks.