Today's example uses both the Formatting-Climaxrule #7 as well as the alignment rule #4. The Climax rule states that a sequence of phrases describing some event or activity should be interpreted in climactic order.

Verse Gn37-34:35 discussing Jacob's severe reaction to the news of Joseph's death states
• And Jacob tore his clothes,
• and put sackcloth upon his loins,
• and mourned for his son many days.
• And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted;
• and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.
• Thus his father wept for him.

Note the anti-climax in the sequence of underlined words: tore, sackcloth, mourned, comfort-refusal,mourn, cry. Cry should not be the climax of the list; it should preferably be in the middle. Hence, based solely on this anti-climax Rashi suggests that The first part of the list tore, sackcloth, mourned, comfort-refusal,mourn. applies to Jacob, but the second part of the list cry applies to his father that is, Jacob's father, Isaac.

Rashi now must explain the aligned verselets: Jacob mourns while Isaac cries: Jacob mourned but Isaac only cried. Apparently Isaac knew Joseph was alive. This is reasonably possible since Isaac's daughter in law was Arab and it was Arabs to which Joseph was sold and transported to Egypt. Hence Isaac could have known the whole story from his Arab contacts since the presence of a Hebrew slave in Egypt would arouse a bu9 and Isaac would eventually find out. Rashi continues: Isaac was crying for Jacob who was unnecessarily mourning. He wasn't crying for Joseph since he knew Joseph was alive. This is indeed possible. But it is equally likely that Isaac was crying for Joseph who had been transformed into a slave by his brothers. Perhaps then Rashi's point is that Isaac was crying for the entire situation where a brother was sold into slavery and his father thought him dead. This is the most appealing explanation.

The table below summarizes this analysis of Rashi.

Verse	Text of Verse	Rashi comment
Gn37-34:35	And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.	Climax see Jacob as tearing, sackcloth, mourning, no-comfort, mourning to grave.. (The crying does not fit in here and belongs to another person as shown in the rest of the table).
Gn37-34:35	Thus his father wept for him.	His father, that is, Jacob's father, Isaac cried since he knew the entire story (Probably because his daughter-in-law was Arab and the Arabs rescued Joseph) He knew the brothers sold him into slavery, framed his death, and Jacob was mourning a live person. He couldn't intefer (because the brothers would go down to Egypt and kill him).