The table below presents an aligned extract of verses or verselets
in
Dt24-05b.
Both verses/verselets
discuss
the exemption rights of a groom during the first year of marriage.
The alignment justifies the Rashi comment that:
The groom is exempt from both army service and national service.
(National service (like in Israel)is a substitute communal service done by people who
don't serve in the army).
This double exemption is indicated
in the verse by the aligned phrases: he won't go out in the army and
he won't go out for any other matter. By contrast
the person who just built a house is exempt from army service but not national service.
(Because the Bible just exempts him from being in the army).
Verse
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Text of Verse
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Rashi comment
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Dt24-05b
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When a man taketh a new wife,
- he shall not go out in the army,
- neither shall he do national service;
rather he shall be free for his house one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
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The groom is exempt from both army service and national service.
(National service (like in Israel)is a substitute communal service done by people who
don't serve in the army).
This double exemption is indicated
in the verse by the aligned phrases: he won't go out in the army and
he won't go out for any other matter. By contrast
the person who just built a house is exempt from army service but not national service.
(Because the Bible just exempts him from being in the army).
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Dt24-05b
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When a man taketh a new wife,
- he shall not go out in the army,
- neither shall he do national service;
rather he shall be free for his house one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
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Advanced Rashi: Rashi also mentions that the four exemptions in
Biblical paragraph, Dt20-01:09, - the person who just built a house, or just
got engaged, or just planted a vineyard, or who is a coward - these four exemptions are
only from the army and hence by aligned comparison with Dt24-05b, the person just
married, these 4 exemptions can be made to do national service.
We have classified this Rashi as an alignment. But it can also be classified as
an instance of the formatting rule. Here we would simply focus on the repeating keyword
will not go out. The repeating keyword is treated like a bulleted list and creates
an unspecified emphasis that two exemptions are mentioned. It is then easy to fill in that one
exemption is army service while the other exemption would be other service which we would immediately
recognize as national service.
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