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VERSE: Lv19-09b
RASHIS COVERED: Lv19-09b Lv19-10b Lv19-20b
Lv19-09b
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SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 10 main goals is the explanation of
meaning the same way a dictionary explains meaning.
We call this the Rashi method of WORD MEANING.
Today we examine two meaning submethods of Rashi.

EXAMPLE: IDIOMS
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Rashi frequently explains not, word meaning, but rather
phrase meaning. That is each particular word in the phrase
may have a known meaning but the collection of words
together form a NEW IDIOMATIC MEANING.
We call this the NEW MEANING or the IDIOM
SUBMETHOD.

EXAMPLE: Lv19-10b LQ@
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Lv19-10 states
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Dont glean the GLEANINGS OF YOUR HARVEST
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Rashi comments
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The phrase THE GLEANINGS OF YOUR HARVEST
refers to individual shafts of harvest
crop that fall during the gleaning
process---(The Torah prohibits picking
them up since they already fell and
the poor need them)
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Similarly Lv19-09 states
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Don't glean the ISOLATONS OF YOUR VINEYARD
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Rashi comments
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The ISOLATONS OF YOUR VINEYARD is an
idiom referring to individual grapes
that fall during harvest--(The Torah
prohibits picking them up since they
already fell and the poor need them
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Lv19-20b states
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If a man sleeps with a woman whose
REDEMPTION IS NOT REDEEMED
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Rashi comments
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The phrase REDEMPTION IS NOT REDEEMED
refers to an INCOMPLETE REDEMPTION
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It is a MISTAKE to look at this logically:
Rashi is NOT being picky on the verse---
he is not stating---THE REDEMPTION [which
had begun] IS NOT REDEEMED [i.e. completed]
Rather, Rashi is simply stating that
REDEMPTION IS NOT REDEEMED is a Hebrew
idiom meaning INCOMPLETE. All idioms should
similarly be taken.

LIST854y below gives further examples of Biblical idioms.
ITEM DETAIL
RASHI RULE CLASS: WORD MEANINGS
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS NEW MEANINGS
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #7
SEE BELOW LIST854y
List of Biblical idioms(eg FROM DAYS DAYS=YEARLY)
LIST854y
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List of Biblical idioms..eg FROM DAYS DAYS=YEARLY
LIST854y continues  LIST854d LIST854y
VERSE BIBLICAL PHRASE TRANSLATION NOTES
Lv19-20b REDEMPTION NOT REDEEMED Incomplete redemption
Lv19-10b GLEANINGS of HARVEST Fallen harvest shafts *10
Lv19-09b ISOLATONS OF VINEYARD isolated felld grapes
Lv17-10b PLACE FACE Total attention/focus
Lv13-12a HEAD to FOOT y
Lv11-03e RAISES WINDPIPE Chews cud(redigests) *2
Lv05-01a VOICE OF CURSE/OATH subpoena for evidence
Lv04-12c ASH SPILL Place of ash remains
Ex32-06b STIFF NECK Stubborn *1
Ex09-18a LIKE THIS TIME TOMORROW Same hour;next day
Ex14-08b HIGH HAND Brazenly
Nu15-30a HIGH HAND Intentionally
Ex14-27b TURN OF MORNING Dawn
Ex17-04a A LITTLE MORE AND.. I am afraid that
Ex22-01b HAS NO BLOOD Is not a MURDERER
Gn37-26b COVER BLOOD conceal MURDER
COMMENTS
*1 Some other examples of this idiom occur at
Ex32-09 Ex33-04 Ex33-05 Ex34-09 Dt09-06
Dt09-13 Pr29-01

*2 That is: The animal
- chews
- regurgitates the chewed material
- redigests it
Hence RAISES ITS WINDPIPE is a good idiom describing it


LONGER FOOTNOTES
*10 Rashi lays down numerical criteria
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- If one or two shafts fall it is GLEANING OF HARVEST
- If three shafts fall it is not a GLEANING
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Various ingenious defenses of these numerical criteria
have been presented. However, I quite simply follow
the Talmudic dictum
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Numerical criteria are oral traditions handed
down to Moses at Sinai
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So the fact that THREE refers to PLURALITY while
ONE AND TWO refer to ISOLATED INDIVIDUALS (not
a group) is an oral tradition and beyond the
ken of Biblical exegesis
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