LIST006e
(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03
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Part 6 in a 7 part series
on the usage of the key phrase
AT THAT TIME
We list below the 18 or so verses with the phrase AT THAT
TIME*12 The basic idea is causal relationship.
Verses with a Rashi end with a LETTER. Verses without a
Rashi do not end in a letter (eg Gn38-01a vs Gn21-22).
This illustrates the Rashi workbook method. Rashi encourages
us to apply the principle of AT THAT TIME=CAUSALITY to other
situations.
We have identified 6 themes in AT THAT TIME=CAUSALITY
These are elaborated in the footnotes. The six themes are
indicated in the column with a # sign. This lists theme is
E - EXPLICITLY STATED - (Hence Rashi need not comment)
eg Moses tells Joshua YOU HAVE SEEN THE CONQUEST
OF THESE KINGS....GOD WILL SIMILARLY CONQUER OTHER
KINGS BEFORE YOU
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VERSE
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#
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BEFORE EVENT
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AT THAT TIME-AFTER
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WHY CAUSE
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Dt03-18
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E
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God gave you land*9
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Therefore fight
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Prior deal
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Dt01-09
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E
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Exodus-go-to-Israel
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Moses needs help*9
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Prior explanat
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Dt03-21
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E
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Defeat of Sichon*9
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Joshua leads
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He saw it*
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Dt02-34
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E
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God gives Sichon*9
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War on Sichon
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Divine order
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Dt03-04
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E
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God gives Og*9
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War on Og
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Divine order
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Dt03-08
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E
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God gives land*9
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War on their land
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Divine order
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Dt05-05
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E
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Decalogue*9
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Moses intermediary
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You afraid
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COMMENTS
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*9 Rashi does not comment on the AT THAT TIME in these
verses because the causal link is stated explicitly
in the Bible.
eg. in Nu32 Moses complains to the Reuben-Menashe
tribes that if they dont fight for Israel then they
will behave like the spies and turn the hearts of
the Jews aside. Moses makes the same connection
(Reuben-menasheh get trans-jordan but must fight
for Israel) in Dt03-18
Similarly in Dt03-21 Moses tells Joshua YOU HAVE
PERSONALLY SEEN THE DEFEAT OF THESE KINGS AND
SIMILARLY GOD WILL DEFEAT OTHER KINGS FOR YOU
Such an emphasis in belief from seeing is
mentioned in several other verses such as
Dt04-03 or Dt11-07
Similarly several verses emphasize that the Jews
did not fight either people or land till God
commanded them
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LONGER FOOTNOTES
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*12 In previous postings we have outlined 4 methods
of connecting paragraphs (See our cp series on
the Rashi calendar
http://www.RashiYomi.com/cp-1.htm thru
http://www.RashiYomi.com/cp-9.htm
What we do in this posting is show how SPECIAL WORDS
(such as AT THAT TIME) can indicate which of the
4 methods is used
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