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VERSE: Gn30-27a
RASHIS COVERED: Gn30-27a Gn44-15a Nu23-23a Nu24-01c Dt18-10d
Ex13-05c Ex12-05c|
(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03 | ||
SUCCINCT SUMMARY ---------------- One of Rashis 6 main goals is to explain the meaning of words the same way the dictionary explains meaning. Rashi had a variety of vehicles to explain meaning. A famous punchy method of describing items is using PERSONIFICATION -- that is the activity or attribute is named by a person or animal that is distinguished in that regard. PERSONIFICATION itself is part of a general trend of language to identify the whole with its parts This is called SYNECDOCHE(Whole and parts). EXAMPLES OF SYNECDOCHE ---------------------- - HONEY means anything SWEET - BREAD means any FOOD - LAMB means any DOCILE YOUNG creature (LAMB,GOAT) - LAND FLOWING WITH MILK OF HONEY means - PRODUCE OF LAND FLOWS WITH MILK AND HONEY - (GOATS of land produce milk; etc) EXAMPLES OF PERSONIFICATION --------------------------- Hence we have - LION meaning COURAGEOUS, - PIG meaning glutonous etc. Today we explore SNAKE - SNAKE=JUMPY (Cf English JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS) Hence the Talmud interprets DONT SNAKE as DONT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS (eg a cat crossed my path and hence I will have a bad day) Snake can refer to SUPERSTITIONS, JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS or to COINCIDENCES | ||
| ITEM | DETAIL | |
| RASHI RULE CLASS: | WORD MEANINGS | |
| RASHI SUBRULE CLASS | 8 METHODS OF NAMING | |
| RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE | #7 | |
| SEE BELOW | LIST817a | |
| List of words | Named by GOOD EXAMPLE | |
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| SEE BELOW | LIST817b | |
| List of verses where | TO SNAKE=TO JUMP to conclusions | |
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(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03 | ||||
Words / Meanings illustrating the GOOD EXAMPLE technique. Thus BREAD refers to BREAD. But because BREAD is a GOOD EXAMPLE of a food, therefore BREAD can refer to ANY FOOD. (The technical term for this is SYNECDOCHE (part names the whole)) | ||||
| # | WORD | STRICT | BROAD MEANING | |
| (101) | Day | 12 hour | 24 hour period | |
| (102) | Bread | Bread | Any Food | |
| (103) | Man (ISH) | Male | Any person | |
| (104) | E-L-H-I-M | God | Any Judge | |
| (105) | IN | IN | AMONG | |
| Ex12-05c | Land | The Land | Inhabitants of land*1 | |
| Ex13-05c | Lamb | Lamb | Lamb or Goats*2 | |
| Dt18-10d | SNAKE | SNAKE | Jumping to conclusions*3 | |
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*1 So the famous phrase ------------------------------------------ A LAND flowing with milk and sweet juices ------------------------------------------ really means ------------------------------------------ A LAND WHOSE INHABITANTS (Goats for milk and Fruit trees for sweet juices) flows with milk and honey ------------------------------------------ *2 Rashi brings support for his contention that LAMB can SYNECDOCHICALLY mean any docile young creature (the same way BREAD means FOOD etc) See Dt14-04 -- A GOAT LAMB *3 See LIST817b for examples. For the while we point out that because of the snakes characteristic motion (JUMPING out at a prey) TO SNAKE came to mean TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS (As in the English Metaphor). Hence the Rabbis interpret the prohibition of SNAKING as a prohibition of JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS (eg a Snake crossed my path hence I will have bad luck) | ||||