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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 examples applies to Rashis Gn27-19c
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1315.htm
      Brief Summary: a) Please Get up and b) Please sit at the table

The table below presents two contradictory verses/verselets. Both verses/verselets talk about the delivery of food by Esauv to Isaac for purposes of blessing. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verse/verselet says please get up while the other verse/verselet says please sit down. Which is it? Was it a request to get up or sit down? Rashi simply resolves this using the 2 stages method: Esauv requested that Isaac 1st) get up and 2nd) sit down at the dinner table so that Esauv could serve him the venizon he caught.

Summary Verse / Source Text of verse / Source
Please get up Gn27-19c
    And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me.
  • Please get up
  • and then please sit down [at the dinner table so that]
  • you can eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Please sit down Gn27-19c
    And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me.
  • Please get up
  • and then please sit down [at the dinner table so that]
  • you can eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Resolution: 2 Stages Esauv requested that Isaac 1st) get up and 2nd) sit down at the dinner table so that Esauv could serve him the venizon he caught. 


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