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We ask the following database query:
Do the Torah laws and Jewish leaders reinforce moral values through symbolic reminders.
The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine.
This database query yields the list below.
The list justifies the following Rashi inference:
The Torah and Jewish leaders reinforce moral values through
symbolic reminders-hence for example, an animal involved in bestiality is executed symbolically affirming
the moral horror of the crime.
The list below presents the results of the database query.
Verse
| Event
| Need
| Symbolic reminder
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Ex17-11a
| War with Amalayk
| Prayer
| Moses raised his hands
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Nu21-09a
| God's cure of snake bites in nation
| Prayer
| Placing the the copper snake on high (hinting to heaven)
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Dt12-02
| Destroying Idolatry
| Horror of crime
| Even the idolatrous trees are killed
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Lv20-15a
| Punishment for sleeping with animals
| Horror of crime
| Animal is stoned to death also
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Ex20-23a
| Temple service
| Decorum, atmosphere, modesty
| Use ramp vs. staircase so as not to excessively expose nakedness
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Gn06-14b
| Noah's Ark
| Punishment of sinful people by brimstone
| Use Brimstone wood (to symbolize coming punishment of brimstone)
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Advanced Rashi: Rashi does not explain why brimstone wood is so called.
I would imagine that the texture and color of the wood is similar to brimstone. Even more startling
is Rashi's assertion that The brimstone wood symbolically reminded the viewers
of Noah's ark of the coming punishment by brimstone!?! But we do not find an explicit verse that
the generation of the flood was punished by brimstone. However we do find brimstone
used as a general punishment for a variety of sinful nations including
Sedom and Amorah (Gn19-24), the exiled Jews (Dt29-22), Edom (Is30-33),
and Gog and Magog (Ez38-22). Rashi therefore felt justified in generalizing these
occurrences to include the punishment of the generation of the flood even if not explicitly
mentioned.
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