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      2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
      • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
      • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
      • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
      • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
      • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
      This examples applies to Rashis Dt28-52a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1305.htm
      Brief Summary: Yud-Resh-Daleth means a) Fell b) Conquered

When Rashi uses, what we may loosely call, the hononym method, Rashi does not explain new meaning but rather shows an underlying unity in disparate meanings. Rashi will frequently do this by showing an underlying unity in the varied meanings of a Biblical root.

In my article Peshat and Derash found on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rashi.pdf. I advocate enriching the Rashi explanation using a technique of parallel nifty translations in modern English. Today's examples show this.

    The Heberw Biblical root Yud-Resh-daleth has a fundamental meaning of Falling. Hence this Biblical root can mean
  • to fall
  • to conquer [ since you frequently conquer a person by felling them; you similarly frequently conquer a city by felling it. ]

Applying the above translation to Dt28-52a discussing the punishment of the Jews for violating God's commandments we obtain #####

Advanced Rashi: Rashi's point is that it would be natural to translate the verse ....until the walls fall Rashi's point is that the walls need not literally fall - it is enough that they be conquered. 


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