---- COMMEMORATIVE SERIES ------

Hi Starting Yesterday & for about
a week we will host a COMMEMORATIVE
SERIES bringing special Rashis
illustrating items that our techniques
in Daily Rashi have contributed to
Rashi Understanding
-----------------------------------

RASHIS COVERED: Gn12-02e PROPHECY takes place over time
Gn22-02b Gn22-02e Jo03-02

VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
------------------
Gods communications are unlike human communications. When
a human communicates it is ideal to be DIRECT. For example
if you want someone to go to Israel you would say GO TO
ISRAEL. God however is not like that: Gods communications,
Prophecy, ideally take place OVER TIME. When God wanted to
tell Abraham to go to Israel,instead,He told him stages
--go FROM your land
--FROM your birthplace
--FROM your fathers household
to the LAND I WILL SHOW YOU. This is characteristic of prophecy

------------------------------
TODAYS RASHI RULE:    DATABASE
TODAYS RASHI SUBRULE: QUERIES
------------------------------

BRIED DESCRIPTION OF RULE and SUBRULE
-------------------------------------
Very roughly speaking modern Database theory has
rigorously defined the concept of a database query.
- A DATABASE is a collection of TABLES
- Each TABLE has ROWS and COLUMNS
- A DATABASE query is simply a REQUEST for a VIEW
--1-- The VIEW may RESTRICT the ROWS of a TABLE
----- Only ROWS meeting certain CRITERIA will be returned
--2-- Or the VIEW may JOIN tables on a common field
--3-- Or the VIEW may RESTRICT certain columns
--4-- THe VIEW may COMBINE or INTERSECT other views
- The above 4 methods are the basic methods of VIEWS
The challenge in each case is to rigorously DEFINE the
vIEW. The language for doing this is called SQL, the
STANDARD QUERY LANGUAGE. This is all straightforward
as the standard example shows


STANDARD EXAMPLE
----------------
Todays example is an excellent example

We work with the DATABASE of all Biblical verses.
We seek verses where
- God spoke to someone (Prophecy)
- We review if God directly told the person what he wanted
- OR did God stretch out the request in stages.

The list below shows several examples where prophetic requests
are stretched out over several stages.

STANDARD REFERENCES FOR THIS RULE
---------------------------------
AKAYDAH: http://www.RashiYomi.com/akaydah.htm

RASHI RULES: http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rules-01.htm
DATABASE METHODS: http://www.Rashiyomi.com/database.htm

In the first reference I bring numerous references showing
how God, in prophetic orders, traditionally uses the method
of stages vs a direct approach. We also analyze the famous
Akaydah in terms of prophecy


TODAYS EXAMPLE
--------------
We list several examples where God made a prophetic request
over time.