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      8. RASHI METHOD: DATABASES
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi makes inferences from Database queries. The precise definition of database query has been identified in modern times with the 8 operations of Sequential Query Language (SQL).
      This example applies to Rashis Ex25-02d Ex25-02c Ex25-02b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n8.htm
      Brief Summary: Two temple sources: Voluntary donations for initial construction; obligatory tax for upkeep.

Today we ask the database query: How many ways was money obtained for the Temple? How was the obtained money used? The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine. This database query yields the list below. The query yields the list below. The list justifies the following Rashi-Midrashic inference. Money for the Temple was obtained in two ways: a) Voluntary gifts, b) Obligatory taxes. The obtained money was used for I)Temple construction II) silver utensils III) daily offerings and upkeep The list below presents the results of the database query and shows examples.

Verse Verse Text Money Obtained by Money used for
Ex25-02:08 ##### Voluntary donation Temple Construction
Ex30-12:14, Ex38-27 ##### Obligatory Tax Temple Construction
Ex30-12:14, Nu28-03 ##### day by day, for a continual burnt offering Obligatory Tax Daily Temple upkeep, Daily offerings

Advanced Rashi: Notice that the Torah does not explicitly state where the daily offerings come from. Rather, Rashi infers this from as a reasonable supposition: There was a requirment for the community to offer 730 lambs throughout the year. It is reasonable that these daily offerings were funded from the yearly half-dollar tax.

Note that we have explained this Rashi in both rule #5, Contradiction and rule #8, Database. Both are equally good explanations of this Rashi comment.


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