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    4. RASHI METHOD: ALIGNMENT
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Aligning two almost identically worded verselets can suggest
    • (4a) 2 cases of the same incident or law
    • (4b) emphasis on the nuances of a case
    • (4c) use of broad vs literal usage of words
    This examples applies to Rashis Gn01-11c
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1310.htm
    Brief Summary: God created a) verdure, b) grass, WITH GERMINATING SEEDS

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses or verselets in Gn01-11c Both verses/verselets discuss the creation of plant life by God. The alignment justifies the Rashi comment that: The plants were created with germinating seeds which could be carried by the wind and seed new plants at a distance. Rashi infers this by comparing the two words connoting grass: a) verdure vs. b) grass, seeding seeds.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Gn01-11c
    And G-d said: 'Let the earth 0put forth
  • grass,
  • herb with seeding seed,
  • and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.
The plants were created with germinating seeds which could be carried by the wind and seed new plants at a distance. Rashi infers this by comparing the two words connoting grass: a) verdure vs. b) grass, seeding seeds.
Gn01-11c
    And G-d said: 'Let the earth 0put forth
  • grass,
  • herb with seeding seed,
  • and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so.

    Advanced Rashi: There are two points two Rashi:
  • First, Rashi notes the extra aligned phrase, seeding seed which emphasizes that plants were created with reproductive capacity (via their seeds)
  • Second, Rashi notes the repetition, seeding seeds which he interprets as emphasizing that even though plants do not have their own locomotion their seeds work anyplace and e.g. can travel through the air and seed elsewhere. Here Rashi uses rule #7, formatting.


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