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    5. RASHI METHOD: CONTRADICTION
    BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi resolves contradictory verses using 3 methods.
    • (5a) Resolution using two aspects of the same event
    • (5b) Resolution using two stages of the same process
    • (5c) Resolution using broad-literal interpretation.
    This example applies to Rashis Lv13-33a Lv13-33b
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/lv13-33a.htm
    Brief Summary: Don't SHAVE the BALD spot?!? Leave its borders unshaved.

    Note the contradiction in the following two verses, discussing the leprosy of bald spots.
  • Verse Lv13-29:32 states If a man or a woman has a leprosy on the head or the beard; ... And if the priest looks on the leprosy ... and there is no black hair in it; ... there is in it no yellow hair,
  • But verse Lv13-33 states ...but the patch he shall not shave;

We see the contradiction, indicated by the underlined words. Which is it? Is the leprous spot bald without black or blond hair? Or does the leprous spot contain hair that can be shaved?

    Rashi resolves this contradiction using the method of two aspects:
    • The leprous spot itself is bald;
    • But the borders of the leprous spot are defined by surrounding normal black hair.
    Hence, the prohibition don't shave the leprous spot really means don't shave the borders of the leprous spot. This leads to the Rashi comment: He leaves a border of two hairs around the leprous spot so as to fulfill don't shave the leprous spot. 


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