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      5. RASHI METHOD: CONTRADICTION
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi resolves contradictory verses using 3 methods.
      • (5a) Resolution using two aspects of the same event
      • (5b) Resolution using two stages of the same process
      • (5c) Resolution using broad-literal interpretation.
      This example applies to Rashis Ex04-14c
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n6.htm
      Brief Summary: God promised Moses that Aaron would come out to greet him when he returned to Egypt. But Moses first his father-in-law's permission.

The table below presents presents two contradictory verses. Both verses speak about who Moses will meet after his prophetic dialogue with God. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verselet says that after his prophetic dialogue with God ...Aaron will go out to greet Moses while the other verselet states Moses went to his father-in-law. Which is it? Did Moses meet Aaron or his father-in-law after his prophetic dialogue? Rashi simply resolves this using the broad-literal method: Immediately after the dialogue Moses went to ask permission from his father-in-law to go to Egypt. But upon going to Egypt, Aaron was the first person that Moses met.

Summary Verse / Source Text of verse / Source
During the prohpetic dialogue God told Moses that Aaron would meet him. Ex04-14c And the anger of HaShem was kindled against Moses, and He said: 'Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he(Aaron) cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
But Moses meets with his father-in-law after the prophetic dialogue. Ex04-18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I beseech you, and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Resolution: Broad-Literal Immediately after the prophetic dialogue Moses met Jethro. However upon his return to Egypt Aaron was the first to meet him. 


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