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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 Lv14-36a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/lv13-02c.htm
    Brief Summary: Only leprosy impurity requires a declaration by the priest

    Today we ask the database query: How is ritual impurity conferred? The query returns the table below, which shows that
    • Leprosy impurity requires a formal declaration of impurity by the priest;
    • Other forms of impurity do not require formal declarations - rather the ritual impurity is objective and based on the conditions of impurity being present.

Verse Impurity Area Biblical Text How impurity occurs
Lv11-29 Dead Animals/people These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the rat, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind, These also shall be unclean to you
Lv12-02 Birth Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives, and bears a male child; then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her menstruation, shall she be unclean. Then she shall be unclean seven days;
Lv15-19 Discharges And if a woman has a discharge, and the discharge of her flesh is blood, she shall be put apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Nu19-08 Red Heiffer Procedure And he who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. he shall be unclean until the evening
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Lv13-20 Leprosy And if, when the priest sees it, behold, it looks lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease of leprosy broken out from the boil. the priest shall pronounce him unclean

Rashi explains the anomaly that only by leprosy is declaration of a priest required for the status of ritual impurity: All other ritual impurity statuses are objective; they are consequences of the conditions of that particular impurity. However leprosy impurity, besides requiring the presence of the conditions of leprosy impurity, also require a verbal pronouncement by the priest. Without this pronouncement the person is not yet ritually impure even though the conditions for impurity are present. 


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