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      8. RASHI METHOD: DATABASES
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi makes inferences from Database queries. The precise definition of database query has been identified in modern times with the 8 operations of Sequential Query Language (SQL).
      This example applies to Rashis Ex12-01a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n7.htm
      Brief Summary: Most Biblical paragraph begin: GOD SPOKE TO MOSES. Those that mention MOSES AND AARON or AARON are special.

We ask the following database query: To whom does God ask to tell the Biblical commandments to the Jews. The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine. This database query yields the list below. The list justifies the following Rashi-Midrashic inference: 86% of the commandment paragraphs begin God spoke to Moses; 13% being God spoke to Moses and Aaron; 1% begin God spoke to Aaron. Whenever the majority, to-Moses, form is deviated from, we should explain it. For example, since Aaron participated with Moses in the delivery of the 10 plagues (Ex04-14:16), therefore God trasmitted the first commandment with a God spoke to Moses and Aaron form. The list below presents the results of the database query and shows examples.

Verse Verse Text Who is to transmit Significance
Lv10-08 And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, Aaron Aaron was silent when his drunken sons were killed by God. Hence he was given the commandment against drunkedness
Ex12-01 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, Moses and Aaron Aaron participated in the delivery of the 10 plagues (Ex04-14:16); Hence he merited to participate in the transmittal of the first commandment
Lv12-01 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Moses Normal style - no comment
Ex14-01 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Moses Normal style - no comment
Lv17-01 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying Moses Normal style - no comment.

Advanced Rashi: This database Rashi has special historical significance. We normally think of databases as a 20th century phenomenon. It frequently shocks people when I tell them that advanced database and SQL theory was routinely performed by the Masorites who preserved the Biblical text with an error rate that is considered low even by 20th century standards. Not all database methods used by the Masorites are practiced yet. Scattered throughout the Midrash we have explicit numerical results, such as the one given above, which can be rederived in a straightforward manner from routine database theory. 


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