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VERY BRIEF SUMMARY ------------------- Most Rashi students are familiar with the Leibowitz-Boncheck approach of seeing Rashi as focusing on Grammar, Meaning and anomaly (THE QUESTION, THE THING THAT IS BOTHERING RASHI) However in many verses nothing is bothering Rashi. Rather Rashi focuses on style. Here, Rashi uses the Rabbi Ishmael style rules. One fundamental style rule states that the GENERAL-PARTICULAR-GENERAL style should be interpreted broadly---the PARTICULAR is not exclusive but rather a good example EXAMPLE: Lv28-08 ---------------- GENERAL Count 7 SABBATICAL YEARS DETAILS --------------------------7 cycles of 7 years GENERAL The 7 Sabbatical years=49 Rashi: So the DETAIL phrase---7 cycles of 7 years is merely a good example. Ideally the Jubilee (50th year) should come after 7, 7-year-Sabbatical periods, in which all loans are forgiven, but if you violated the loan-forgiveness, the Jubilee is still declared in the 50th year. In halachic lingo, loan forgiveness is PREFERRED but not ESSENTIAL to Jubilee declaration. | ||
| ITEM | DETAIL | |
| RASHI RULE CLASS | RABBI ISHMAEL STYLE | |
| RASHI SUBRULE CLASS | GENERALIZED | |
| RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE | #25 | |
| SEE BELOW | LIST410A | |
| Examination of structure of | Lv25-08 | |
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We exhibit the GENERAL-DETAIL-GENERAL structure of Lv26-08. This GENERAL-DETAIL-GENERAL structure is a style principle and requires that the detail be perceived as a GOOD EXAMPLE and therefore the regulation applies to anything that is SIMILAR to the detail. The footnotes illuminate further | ||
| CATEGORY | TEXT OF VERSE | |
| GENERAL | Count 7 Sabbatical years*1 | |
| DETAIL | 7 cycles of 7 years *2 | |
| GENERAL | 7 Sabbatical years=49 years*3 *10 | |
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*1 Every 7 years the calendar has a SHMITAH year. During this period all loans are forgiven. See the following verses for details - Dt15-01:02 - Ex23-10:12 - Ex34-21 The Torah seems to call this 7th year the REMOVAL year--however in Lv25-08 it is called the SABBATH year making an analogy between the 7th year and the 7th day. *2 Rashis MAIN point is that the verse is talking about a 49 year period consisting of 7 cycles of 7 years. Very often Rashi extablishes a main point by exaggeration ------------------------------------- RASHI: Perhaps we could just forgive debts 7 years in a row (instead of 7 cycles of 7 years) and then have a Jubilee in the 50th year? Therefore the text says: 7 Sabbatical year---49 years ------------------------------------- It would be improper to think that Rashi really believed that we could have 7 consecutive loan-forgiveness years. Rather Rashi is using this example as an exaggeration--- he is showing how the absense of the DETAIL phrase which explicitly states 49 years could cause us to think otherwise. Thus Rashis point is that the GENERAL idea of 7 Sabbatical-forgiveness years is DETAILED by a requirement of 49 years. A person who understands this understands Rashi without it being necessary to consider the possible counterexample of 7 consecutive forgiveness years. *3 The GENERAL-DETAIL-GENERAL style requires generalization of the DETAIL phrase---ANY 49 year period---even if you violated the loan forgiveness requirement in the 7th years. *10 | ||
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*10 At a grammatical level Rashi could also be derived from the famous rule that the pronoun TO YOU indicates personal use. Hence when Lv25-08 states --------------------------------------------- these 7 sabbaticals shall be TO YOU 49 years --------------------------------------------- we infer that the 49 years works EVEN if you used them FOR YOURSELVES and did not forgive debts. However the more mature way of reading Rashi is to see him as inferring from the style of the verse that ANY 49 year period works even if the preferred loan forgiveness did not occur See http://www.RashiYomi.com/ex18-27a.htm for futher details. | ||