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    9. RASHI METHOD: SPREADSHEETS
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This example applies to Rashis Dt04-47a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n6.htm
    Brief Summary: We conquered Bashan and Emori on the EAST side of Jordan (The Jordan river goes NORTH-SOUTH partitioning Israel)

Verse Dt04-47a states And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on the side of the Jordan eastward; Rashi interprets the underlined phrase, eastward diagramatically, The Jordan river goes from the North East to the south west. Hence it naturally divides Israel into east and west. The Bashan and Emorite territories were on the east. Rashi's diagramtic statement is illustrated in the diagram below. 

'                       Mount Chermon
'                       Syria, North
'                               /
'                              /      Bashan, Emori
'                             /
'       West   Jordan River /      East
'                           /
'                          /          TransJordan
'                         /
'                      Dead Sea
'                     South




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