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      7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
      • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
      • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
      • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
      • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
      This example applies to Rashis Nu29-39a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n2.htm
      Brief Summary: A) On Shmini Azereth offer one ox, one... B) The ABOVE should be done [FIXED] C) Additional to VOWS and VOLUNTARY offerings.

Very often Rashi will make an inference from the paragraph structure. A typical paragraph structures can be parallel or contrastive with or without bullets. The parallel and contrastive structure naturally generate Rashi comments. This type of inference also follows from the Rabbi Ishmael Style rule of inferring from context since the paragraph structure endows the disparate paragraph sentences with a unified context.

    Paragraph Nu29-35:39 discussing the festival obligations of the Jews on Shmini Azereth is written in a contrastive paragraph structure as shown below:
    1. On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no labor in it;
    2. But you shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savor to the Lord;
      • one bull,
      • one ram,
      • seven lambs of the first year without blemish; Their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the ordinance;
      • And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
    3. These things you shall do [Rashi: The above are fixed] to the Lord in your set feasts,
    4. beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, [Rashi: These are non-fixed additional] for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
    We have embedded, in the translation, the Rashi comments which emphasize the contrastive structure of the paragraph. Notice how it is the paragraph structure naturally gives rise to the Rashi comment. 


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