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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 Lv16-10a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/ex10-08a.htm
    Brief Summary: The he-goat remains ALIVE ALIVE TILL CONFESSION; but then is sent to DEATH.

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.

With this in mind let us read verse Lv16-10,20,21 which discusses the Yom Kippur he-goat that goes to Azazel in the wilderness: But the goat, on which the lot fell to be for Azazel, shall remain alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go to Azazel into the wilderness. ... And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat; And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wild Notice the repetition of the underlined word live goat atone / confess; several times; we are reminded that goat was kept alive till the confession. The Biblical repetition is the equivalant of a modern day underlining. This repetition/underlining creates an unspecified emphasis. Hence the Rashi comment: The he-goat is [only] kept alive ...until confession. But then the he-goat is sent to the wilderness...to die. Rashi makes this inference of death from the repeated phrase live till atonement / confession.

Sermonic points: A fundamental theme in Judaism is that all Jews, even sinners, have a right to the hereafter. This right is symbolically affirmed by the not-before-God he-goat that was sent to the wilderness to die. Nevertheless, this he-goat was kept alive until confession. This offering procedure mirrors the before-death confession that was encouraged from sinners convicted of capital crimes. They were encouraged to confess before death and thereby earn the right to the next world.


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