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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 Ex13-09c
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n7.htm Brief Summary: The aligned contrast HAND - HANDLET suggests a dynamic new meaing: HANDLET=Weaker hand = LEFT.

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses in Ex13-09c, Ex13-16 Both verses discuss the obligation to place Tefillin on the left hand. The alignment justifies the Rashi assertion that The Tefillin must be placed on the handlet - the weaker hand which in most people is the left hand.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Ex13-09c And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of HaShem may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath HaShem brought thee out of Egypt. The underlined words require that the Tefillin be placed on presumably any hand.
Ex13-16 and it shall be a sign upon your handlet .... The word handlet never occurs in the Bible. The contrastive alignment with hand suggests a coined term meaning the weaker hand. Hence the requirement is to place tefillin on the left hand.

Advanced Rashi: The actual aligned Hebrew words are Yud-Daleth-Caph vs. Yud-Daleth-Caph-Hey. A terminal hey in Hebrew indicates a feminine or weaker form. This explains the Rashi comment: the weaker hand, the left hand.

English however has no letter indicating the feminine. To mimic the Hebrew we used the let suffix: hand-handlet. The purpose of this construction was to give the feel underlying the Rashi.

The use of skillfully constructed English analogies to mirror Biblical derivations was advocated in my article Biblical Formatting found on the world wid web at http://www.rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf. 


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