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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 Ex39-03a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/ex39-03a.htm

    Rashi provides the equivalent of pictures and diagrams for many Temple constructions. One example is provided by Ex39-03
    1. And they did skied the gold into thin plates,
    2. and cut it into threads,
    3. to fix it
      • in the blue,
      • and in the purple,
      • and in the scarlet,
      • and in the fine linen,
    4. a woven work.
    Hence the Rashi comment, almost mirrored by the above verse structure, depicting the production process of the threads
    1. The gold sheets were flattened
    2. the flat gold sheets were cut into gold threads
    3. One gold thread was woven with the blue, purple, scarlet and linen threads
    4. All 4 threads - the blue-gold, the purple-gold, the scarlet-gold, and linen-gold - were now woven into one thread. This one thread was used to produce certain of the Priestly garments such as the Ephod

    Advanced Rashi: Rashi makes further comments on these threads consistent with the spreadsheet method:
  • Notice that the Hebrew word for linen is six.
  • The linen is so named because it is a six-ply thread.
  • By analogy all the threads were probably six-ply.
  • Each six-ply thread was mixed with one gold thread making it a seven ply thread.
  • But there were 4 types of threads (Blue, purple, scarlet, linen).
  • Hence the total strands per thread was 4 x 7 =28. 


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