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CLIMAX |
EXAMPLE: Lv26-30c Your bodies on your broken idols (LITERALLY!)
EXAMPLE: Lv26-30d My(Gods) soul will loathe you(=No Prophecy)
EXAMPLE: Lv26-31a No cities = no metropolitan areas
EXAMPLE: Lv26-31b No Temple includes Rotational temple links
We continue with the Rashis on Lv26-27:33 which CLIMACTICALLY
describe 7 stages to EXILE. The principle of CLIMAX justifies
POETIC LICENSE which allows Rashi to interpret similar
phrases differently dependning on WHERE THEY ARE in the
paragraph sequence.
The introduction was presented yesterday. The sequence of
events leading to exile is presented below and will continue
tomorrow.
Those interested may visit the main posting for the longer
footnotes. See http://www.RashiYomi.com/h13n22.htm
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| STAGE |
VERSE |
TEXT OF VERSE |
LINKS |
| STARVATION |
Lv26-29 |
Eat children for food |
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| NO RELIGIOUS CRUTCHES |
Lv26-30 |
Lose religious statutes*1 |
*2 |
| NO PERSONAL RELIGION |
Lv26-30 |
No dreams inspiring hope*3 |
*4 |
| NO ANCESTRAL RELIGION |
Lv26-31 |
No cities,temple,sacrifices*5 |
*5 |
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COMMENTS |
*1 Rashi here explains terms
- (Lv26-30a) BAMAH refers to popular public altars
- (Lv26-30b) HAMAN refers to Roof altars *10
*2 (LINK OF STARVATION TO LOSS OF RELIGION)
If you are starving you might at least go into some
public worship center (To get food). But these centers
will all be destroyed.
*3 - (Lv26-30c) Rashi interprets YOUR CADAVERES WILL BE
PLACED ON YOUR BROKEN IDOLS literally, by utilizing an
example supplied by the Sifray.
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e.g. A person is starving and takes out his/her
pocket idol. The person drops dead and falls on
the idol. Thus the persons body is on the broken
idol*11
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Similarly (Lv26-30d) Rashi interprets MY(GODS) SOUL
WILL LOATHE YOU to mean
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There will be no spiritual communication between
Me (God) and man (such as by dreams)
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Thus Rashi is using poetic license on these phrases.
See the next footnote for the LINK between starvation
no religious centers and the above interpretations
*4 LINK OF NO DREAMS IN EXILE STAGES
Quite simply a person who is starving who cannot get
food in public religious institutions may still have
hope because of some dream suggesting a solution to
his/her problem; OR, the person may have hope because
of some religious object they hold on to.
Thus Rashi interprets these phrases as a DESTRUCTION
OF PERSONAL RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES which might
inspire hope in the face of starvation
*5 LINK OF STARVATION, NO TEMPLE, EXILE
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So far we have described 3 stages
- starvation
- loss of local idol houses where a person might
obtain food
- loss of personal religious experiences.
The person might try to go back to his ancestral religion.
Such networking would provide him with friends who would
supply food and jobs.
Hence Rashi interprets these Biblical phrases as talking
about the destruction of ancestral religion
-(Lv26-31a)No metropolitan cities with business flow*12
-(Lv26-31b)no temple to which people came from all over*13
-(Lv26-31b) no priests sacrifices
Rashi used poetic license and interpreted these phrases
as describing a new stage: LOSS OF CENTRALIZED ANCESTRAL
RELIGION
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