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    6. RASHI METHOD: STYLE
    Rashi examines how rules of style influences inferences between general and detail statements in paragraphs.
    • Example: Every solo example stated by the Bible must be broadly generalized;
    • Theme-Detail: A general principle followed by an example is interpreted restrictively---the general theme statement only applies in the case of the example;
    • Theme-Detail-Theme: A Theme-Detail-Theme unit is interpreted as a paragraph. Consequently the details of the paragraph are generalized so that they are seen as illustrative of the theme.
    This examples applies to Rashis Lv07-26a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/dt21-22b.htm
    Brief Summary: Dont drink blood, [applies only] from birds and animals [fish blood is ok]

    Biblical verse Lv07-26a is written in a General-Detail style as follows:
    • General: And ye shall eat no manner of blood,
    • [only if] it be
      • of fowl or
      • of beast,
      in any of your dwellings.

    We have embe30ed the interpretation of the general-detail construction in the translation of the above verse:
  • Only blood of fowl and beasts may not be eaten;
  • but this prohibition does not apply to fish blood.

    Sermonic ideas: The Midrash explains the prohibition using concepts of biological complexity and similarity:
    • The blood of fowl and beasts which resemble humans is prohibited;
    • The blood of fish which are biologically less similar to humans is not prohibited
    In other words the primary prohibition is consumption of human blood. This prohibition then transfers to those animal classes that resemble humans more closely.     


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