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LECHEM means FUEL; PNAY means FOCUS |
EXAMPLE: Lv03-11a FUEL for the altar Fire FOR the sake of God
EXAMPLE: Lv03-11b FUEL for the altar Fire FOR the sake of God
EXAMPLE: Lv04-06a Throw the blood to the FOCUS of the Curtain
BACKGROUND
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One of the major Rashi tasks is to act like a dictionary
and provide meaning. An important subtask here is to
provide NUANCES of new meanings and idioms.
THE TEXT--Here are some verses and their LITERAL translation
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Lv03-11 Bread Fire To Sweet Smell To God
Lv04-06a To the FACE of the PAROCETH
THE RASHI
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Rashi provides new nuances to these words as follows
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BREAD = FUEL
TO (LAMED)= FOR (LAMED)
FACE = The Focus
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Rashi also identifies the construct form in the verse
THE RESULTING TRANSLATION
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Lv03-11 (the above organs are) FUEL for the FIRE; For
purposes of something sweet smelled FOR God
Lv04-06a Throw the blood to the FOCAL POINT of the PAROCETH*1
THE LIST
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THe LIST below really is 3 lists combined in one.
That is we defend our thesis in 3 ways
-- we show various WORD PAIRS (like day=12 hours;day=24 hours)
that show enlargement of meaning; so BREAD can mean
FUEL
-- We show VERSES where BREAD means FOOD
This justifies the attempted enlargement
-- We show that various ORGAN WORDS (Head,Face,Hand,Foot)
can refer to things with similar functions (HEAD means
TOP; FACE means FRONT; FOOT means SUPPORT etc). This
helps justify that FACE OF THE PAROCETH refers to the
FOCAL POINT OF THE PAROCETH
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| WORD |
MEANING-1 |
MEANING-2 |
VERSE |
TEXT OF VERSE |
| DAY*2 |
12 hours |
24 hours |
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| MAN |
Man |
Adult |
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| BREAD |
Bread |
food |
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| HONEY |
HONEY |
Sweet |
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| BREAD |
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food*3 |
Dt08-03 |
Mans doesnt live on food |
| BREAD |
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food |
Jr11-19 |
Destroy his FOOD by sticks |
| BREAD |
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food |
Dn05-01 |
He made alot of FOOD |
| BREAD |
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food |
Ecc10-19 |
They party with FOOD |
| BREAD |
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food*3 |
Lam05-09 |
We get FOOD with out lives |
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| HEAD |
HEAD |
TOP*4 |
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| FOOT |
FOOT |
BOTTOM |
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| BELLY |
BELLY |
CENTER |
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| FACE |
FACE |
FRONT |
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COMMENTS |
*1 Recall the ark sat in the Holy of HOlies
THe ark had two 20 feet poles used to carry it
The Paroceth curtain covered the ark
The paroceth had a sort of bulge where the 2 20 foot
poles met the curtain. This bulge was the focal point
of the Paroceth curtain since it was the primary goal
of the curtain to cover the ark
*2 This list comes from our series on NAMING See
http://www.RashiYomi.com/naming-8.htm
*3 3 of these verses were brought by Rashi. I added 2
more
*4 These are standard idioms in all languages. Compare
for example Ez38-12; The nation that sits on the
CENTER (literally: BellY) of the earth.
These idioms may be also found in RADACK
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