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Recall that Judah had visited a prostitute and gave her a deposit for payment.
Judah sent friends to find the woman and pay her back but she could not be found.
Finally in verse Gn38-23 Judah resigns and says
And Judah said, Let her keep it, lest we be shamed; behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her.
Rashi explains the underlined words, lest we be shamed, by reminding us of normal real-world social
norms.
If we continue investigating her whereabouts it will become public that I visited a prostitute and that
will lead to my personal disgrace (since people tend to keep such things discrete). It is therefore better
to forego the monetary and convenience loss of the items deposited then to risk such disgrace.
Such uses of social logic - conflicts between monetary and social needs - are common in business and political decisions.
Since Rashi uses real-world norms to explain the text we classify this Rashi as an example of the
non-verse method.
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