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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 Lv05-09a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/lv05-09a.htm
    Brief Summary: Up bird offering: head cut off;Sin offering: Head partially cut off.

    The following two verses both discuss the be-heading procedure in bird offerings:
  • Verse Lv05-08 discussing the sin bird offering states And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first,
    • and pinch off its head close by its neck,
    • but shall not divide it asunder.
  • Verse Lv01-15 discussing the up bird offering states And the priest shall bring it unto the altar,
    • and pinch off its head,
    • - - - - - - -
    and make it smoke on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

Notice that the underlined phrase but shall not divide it asunder is present by the sin bird offering but not by the up bird offering. Rashi comments:

  • In the up bird offering the head is completely cut off
  • In the sin bird offering the head is partially cut off(only one of the two pipes in the neck are severed).

Sermonic points: The bird symbolically refers to poverty. The offering procedures symbolically describe the type of depression that occurs in poverty. Sin is not totally devastating in the poor since they blaim their sins on their poverty. By contrast poverty totally destroys the aspiration to ascend and progress -- hence the head is totally cut off indicated by the absence of the underlined phrase but shall not divide it asunder in the bird up offering.


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