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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 Ex15-08b Ex15-08c
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w35n5.htm
    Brief Summary: Through the wind of Your nostrils the water GLACIERED, standing like a DRIPPING ICICLE

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses or verselets in Ex15-08b Both verses/verselets discuss the parting of the waters at the splitting of the red sea. The alignment justifies the Rashi comment that: The verse uses the word heap and icicle. A heap of water would be a glacier. And icicle is a standing unit which drips away. For example Rashi translates Is17-13 as referring to harvest icycles picturesquenly describing the leftover of a good harvest as a mound of wheat which drips away in the wind and withers. The full translation of the verse would be Through the wind of Your nostrils the water glaciered, standing like a dripping icicle.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Ex15-08
  • Through the wind of Your nostrils the water glaciered,
  • standing like a dripping icicle.
The verse uses the word heap and icicle. A heap of water would be a glacier. And icicle is a standing unit which drips away. For example we would translate Is17-11 as referring to harvest icycles picturesquenly describing the leftover of a good harvest as a mound of wheat which drips away in the wind and withers. The full translation of the verse would be Through the wind of Your nostrils the water glaciered, standing like a dripping icicle.
Ex15-08
  • Through the wind of Your nostrils the water glaciered,
  • standing like a dripping icicle.

Advanced Rashi: Rashi's main point is translation. Here Rashi infers meaning through alignment as shown above. The root of the Hebrew word used, Ayin-Resh-Mem, Araymah means heap. We have translated heap of water as glacier. The Hebrew word Nayd occurs only half a dozen times in the Bible. It all but one case it refers to water and to something standing. The idea of dripping standing water suggests icicle. This is consistent with its usage in Is17-11 which states On your day of planting you shooted enormously, and just in the morning your seeds were blossoming; but they became a withering harvest mound on a day of conquest with pained sorrow. The idea of a harvest mound, with wheat strands blowing away in the wind resembles an icicle. This is also consistent with the Biblical root, Nun Daleth which means to wander. Here the wheat or water droplets are picturesquely described as wandering from the main icicle or wheat heap. We then took these heuristic translations and embedded them in the verse translation above.


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