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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 Ex27-17a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n9.htm Brief Summary: All Pillars, stakes and hooks - on north, south, east, west - are copper.

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses in Ex27-09:14 All verses discuss the obligation of making Temple walls with pillars, stakes and hoooks. The alignment justifies the Rashi assertions that The pillars, stakes and hooks - whether in north, south, east and west - must be copper.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Ex27-11
    And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long,
    1. and its twenty pillars and their
    2. twenty sockets of copper;
    3. the hooks of the pillars and
    4. their joints of silver
Pillars and sockets of copper. Hooks and joints of silver
Ex27-12
    And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits;
    1. their pillars ten, and
    2. their sockets ten.
    The material of the pillars and sockets is not explicitly mentioned. Hence verse Ex27-17 explicitly states
    1. All the pillars around the court shall be bound with silver;
    2. their hooks shall be of silver,
    3. and their sockets of copper.
    showing that all pillars are silver and all sockets copper whether they are in the north, south, west or south.

Advanced Rashi: In the above Rashi we have only cited the verses with the south and west side. Rashi cites a similar alignment of the verses for the north and east side.


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