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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Gn24-37a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n5.htm
      Brief Summary: Gn24-37:38 is a single sentence spanning multiple verses: Don't take a Canaanite wife for my son unless you first try and fail to obtain a wife from my family.

The multi-verse rule states that a single sentence may span several verses. sentence. Rashi facilitates understanding the multi-verse nature by smoothing out the multi-verse nature by emphasizing or inserting smoothing connective words.

    Gn24-37:41 is such a multi-verse. It states: And my master made me swear, saying:
  • Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.
  • Unless thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.
  • then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred;
  • if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

  • Rashi's whole purpose is to explain the multi-verse nature.
  • Initially: Don't initially take a Canaanite wife; but rather initially go to my family.
  • If they don't give her to you then you are free from this prohibition. 

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