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      7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
      • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
      • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
      • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
      • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
      This example applies to Rashis Ex16-25a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n8.htm
      Brief Summary: Moses told the people: TODAY is Sabbath; TODAY eat the MANNA. TODAY you will not find it. So they shouldn't go out on Sabbath but the Manna would resume tomorrow.

We have explained in our article Biblical Formatting located on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf, that the Biblical Author indicates bold, italics, underline by using repetition. In other words if a modern author wanted to emphasize a word they would either underline, bold or italicize it. However when the Biblical author wishes to emphasize a word He repeats it. The effect - whether thru repetition or using underline - is the same. It is only the means of conveying this emphasis that is different.

Verse Ex16-25a discussing the double portion of Manna that came down on the Sabbath states And Moses said: 'Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto HaShem; to-day ye shall not find it in the field. Rashi comments on the three-fold repetition of today: The repeated emphasis of the underlined word today creates an unspecified emphasis: This unspecified emphasis can be captured by inserting the words only,all: The verse states a) Only today you don't have to go out to get Manna but tomorrow the manna will resume; b) all of today you shouldn't go out (whether morning or evening). 


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