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    9. RASHI METHOD: SPREADSHEETS
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This examples applies to Rashis Dt28-68d
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n11.htm
    Brief Summary: You shall FAWN SLAVE APPEARANCE to your enemies but no one will buy you because THEY PREFER ANNHILATION.

Verse Dt28-68 discussing the helpless plight of the Jews in exiled lands states And the Lord shall bring you into Egypt again ... and there you shall fawn slave appearance to to your enemies but no man shall buy you [because they will prefer to murder you].

The Rashi comment on the verse text no man shall buy you is Because they will prefer to kill you. This Rashi comment is not textual but logical; Rashi is explaining how it happens that no one wants to buy you; because they wish to kill you instead. Because Rashi's comment supplements the verse meaning with real world facts we classify this Rashi comment as exemplifying the non verse method.

    This verse is analyzed in 3,5 and 9.
  • In rule 3 we explain that the root Mem-Caph-Resh means to fawn appearance.
  • In rule 5 we further support this translation of the root Mem-Caph-Resh by showing that this root couldn't mean to sell or to attempt to sell because it states explicitly no one will by you.
  • In rule 9 we explain why no one buys you: because your enemies prefer to kill you. 


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