Different Opinions

We learned in class this week about or kasdim. Rashi and Rambam have 2 different answers for the meaning of this. Rashi thinks it was a place, but Rambam thinks it was rather an event. The simple meaning, which is what Rashi likes and strives to find is that Or Kasdim was a place. He says that "Or" is referring to the hebrew word for village and Kasdim is just the name of that particular village. Rashi disagrees with Rambam that it was an event because if it was an important enough it would have been written in the tanach, but it is not. If it refers to the village then it does not make sense because that is the birthplace of Avraham and Avraham is from shem making Or Kasdim an event rather than a place. Rambam simply believes this because of the context of the sentence.