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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 Lv16-14a Lv16-14b
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/lv16-14a.htm
    Brief Summary: He sprinkles blood: ONCE, ABOVE; 7 TIMES, BELOW

    Biblical verse Lv16-14 discussing the sprinkling of blood in the sin offering of the Yom Kippur service states And he shall take of the blood of the bull,
  • and
    • sprinkle it
    • with his finger
    • '
    • upon the covering eastward;
  • and
    • before the covering
    • shall he sprinkle of the blood
    • with his finger
    • seven times.

    The bullets clearly indicate that there are two procedures of sprinkling. Rashi makes two comments on the aligned underlined differences:
    • The first sprinkles are Upon, that is, on the curtain top;
    • The second sprinkles are before, that is on the curtain bottom;
    The second Rashi comment focuses on the blank bullet in the first set of sprinkles contrasted with the seven times in the second set of sprinkles.
    • There were seven sprinkles on bottom
    • There was only one sprinkle on top

Advanced Rashi: Rashi simply says: The verse connotes one sprinkle. Rashi does not further indicate how he infers that only one sprinkle is performed. I would suggest that Rashi makes this inference from the alignment.

For a full explanation of the alignment method see my article The Pedagogy of the Four Sons. 


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