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An idiom is a collection of words which means more than
the sum of the meanings of each of the phrases' individual words.
Verse
Dt16-09a
discussing
the requirements to count 7 weeks from Passover to Shavuoth
states
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time
the sickle is on the sheaf [harvest] shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.
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Rashi explains:
The phrase(s)
the sickle is on the sheaf
is an idiom meaning
harvest.
As can be seen from the underlined words
the Rashi comment is compactly and explicitly combined in the Biblical text.
Advanced Rashi: Rashi goes a step further and states
The omer coincides with the beginning of the harvest.
Rashi learns this from the explicit association in Lv23-10:11.
In fact we could have approached this whole Rashi using an alignment
of the Lv and Dt chapters both of which deal with the Passover-Omer-Shavuoth
sequence. However, it was also important to emphasize that Rashi was identifying
a Biblical idiom which is why we classified this Rashi as we did.
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