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    3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
    • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
    • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
    • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
    This examples applies to Rashis Lv10-02a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/lv10-02a.htm
    Brief Summary: Paragraph juxtaposition can indicate causation.

    One of Rashi's grammar methods deals with the rules of paragraph development. Rashi new of 3 methods by means of which consecutive paragraphs can be juxtaposed The consecutive paragraphs can indicate
  • cause-effect or enablement
  • contrasting themes
  • examples of a unifying theme.

    We apply this juxtaposition principle to the two Biblical paragraphs Lv10-01:07, Lv10-08:11
    • Death of Aaron's sons (Lv10-01:07): And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. ...
    • Prohibition of Priest's drinking wine (Lv10-08:11): And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; ...
    Hence the simple Rashi explaning the juxtaposition of the priestly deaths and wine prohibition: Aaron's sons offered improper incense because they were drunk. Hence God forbade drinking by priests to prevent a repetition of such errors.

Advanced Rashi: Notice that this Rashi is the simple intended meaning of the text - it is not a fanciful homily. The Rashi does not emanate from a punchy translation or the nuance of a grammatical form. Nevertheless, a Rashi based on paragraph juxtaposition is as intrinsic to the Biblical text as Rashis based on translations. However the juxtaposition Rashis have a different flavor then translation and conjugation Rashis. 


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