RASHIS COVERED: Nu31-50a Nu31-50b Nu31-50c Nu31-50d

VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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Nu31-50 lists 4 pieces of jewelry: Earings, (hand)-bracelets,
(foot)-bracelets, and belly rings. The Hebrew words used are
rare. It is clear from the verse context that the words refer
to pieces of jewelry. The challenge before Rashi was to give
the exact Jewelry nature of each piece.  Rashi used 3 methods
to infer the meanings of these words. The most powerful of
methods is to find other VERSES with the same piece of jewelry
(So e.g. BRACELETS ON HANDS implies they are worn on hands)
Rashi also inferred word meanings from the meanings of ROOTS
and ETYMOLOGIES.So this is a good Rashi on how to infer meanings

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ODAYS RASHI RULE:      WORD MEANINGS
TODAYS RASHI SUBRULE:  INFERRING MEANING
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RULE and SUBRULE
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One of Rashis goals was to give the meaning of
words the same way a dictionary gives the meaning
of words. A fascinating sub-challenge was to infer
the meanings of words whose nuances are not well
known. Studies have shown that 50% of an adults
vocabulary comes from such inferences. Hence it
shouldnt surprise us that this is a major Rashi
method.



TODAYS EXAMPLE

Here is the list of 4 jewelry pieces and the 3 methods used
to infer meaning. The footnotes give further details.
We do 2 jewelry today and 2 tomorrow