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      2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
      • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
      • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
      • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
      • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
      • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
      This examples applies to Rashis Dt04-21b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n6.htm
      Brief Summary: The phrase ON THE WORDS OF is an IDIOM meaning BECAUSE OF THE INCIDENT.

An idiom is a collection of words which means more than the sum of the meanings of each of the phrases' individual words. Verse Dt04-21b discussing God's anger at Moses states And the Lord was angry with me because of your words, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go into that good land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance; Rashi explains: The phrase because of your words is an idiom meaning because of your incidents We can compactly combine the Rashi comment with the Biblical text by translating as follows: And the Lord was angry with me because of your incidents, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go into that good land, which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance;

In my article Peshat and Derash found on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rashi.pdf I advocate enriching the Rashi explanation using a technique of parallel nifty translations in modern English. Today's examples shows this. 


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