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- Text of verse: Wow--you-re beautiful--you-re beautiful - Midrash: You-re beautiful in Man-Man laws; Your beautiful in God-Man laws - COMMENT: The Midrash is NOT exhausting the meaning of the text in this one comment. Obviously the Biblical text--you-re beautiful you-re beautiful-- connotes INTENSE admiration of beauty. The Midrash gives but ONE GOOD EXAMPLE of this INTENSE admiration The reader is free to give other examples. Enough--let us examine how Rashi uses this principle - Gn03-01 The MAIN POINT OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT is that the snake was trying to get them to sin (EVEN IF GOD TOLD YOU NOT TO EAT). Rashi suggests that the snake saw Eve eating from the other trees; Radack suggests that Eve told the snake the prohibition of eating from tree of knowledge. The snake says--but you can eat from some trees..maybe you are wrong in what God commanded (the ARE-YOU-SURE argument) Thus Rashi uses this text as a springboard for discussing how people get other people to sin. - Gn43-20a The MAIN POINT OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT is that Joseph cried over meeting Binyamin. Rashi gives GOOD EXAMPLES of what could have happened -- Maybe Binyamin mentioned how he named all his children over his missing brother. Another good example (not given by Rashi!) is that Binyamin could simply mention that his older brother was the brother that was missing--and Binyamin missed him alot - Gn43-34b The MAIN POINT OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT is that after Josephs harshness to the brothers he acted friendly to Binyamin. He invited him to his house, dined with him and blessed him So when the Torah says he gave him a 5-FOLD portion Rashi gives a good example of how this could have happened-- maybe Josephs whole family each gave Binyamin a present Note that in Gn45-22 it says that Binyamin got a 5-fold amount of clothes. But Rashi does not explain this 5-fold amount!!!! Hence we are justified in seeing Rashis explanation of the 5-fold amount in Gn43-34b as a GOOD EXAMPLE not a general principle. To what can this be compared: If I give someone 18 dollars at a wedding. Wouldnt it be wrong to interpret the amount as due to the fact that eg the wedding happened on 18th street. In fact 18 dollars is a normal amount to give at weddings. Similarly with Joseph...there are many 5-folds -- Rashi only interprets only one of them...so he was only giving a good example 
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VERSE: Ex21-26z
Ex21-26z
(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-04


SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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Rashi frequently infers conclusions from the OVERALL
PARAGRAPH structure and its development style

EXAMPLE Ex21-12:25
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The torah deals throughout with PENALTIES for damages.
The Torah lists 4 types of damages
- Murder
- Wounding
- Taking someone as a slave
- Cursing

The Torah lists 4 types of recipients of the damage
- A Parent
- A Free Man
- A Foetus
- A slave

Using these two dimensions of damages we can
understand various distinctions
- Even WOUNDING/CURSING a PARENT carries a death penalty
- KILLING ones own slave (under certain circumstances)
carries no penalty.
- Wounding a free man requires monetary compensation
while wounding a slave requires giving him his freedom

The development of the DAMAGE theme over these two dimensions
is particularly elegant!
ITEM DETAIL
RASHI RULE CLASS: BULLETS
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS BULLETING
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #26
SEE BELOW LIST106O
List of Penalty cases in Ex21-12:25
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SEE BELOW LIST106P
List of Penalty cases in Ex21-12:25
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