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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 example applies to Rashis Nu13-21a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1417.htm
    Brief Summary: Spies went from SE (Tzin Dessert) to SW (Mediterranean) to NW (Mount Mount, Chamath)

Verse Nu13-17 describing Moses instructions to the spies states: And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them: 'Get you up here into the South, and go up to the Mount; Verse Nu13-21 describing the actual journey of the spies states they went up, and spied out the land from the TZin desert unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.

Rashi comments:

  • They traveled like the shape of the letter L
  • They started in the SouthEast at the lower right tip of the L
  • They journeyed on the L bottom along the south to the left tip of the L in the southwest
  • They then journeyed vertically upwards on the L to the NorthWest

    The diagram below illustrates this diagrmatic Rashi as well as supply scriptural references for the various underlined places mentioned in the above two verses describing their journey. 

             |NW Mount Mount, Chamath (Nu34-07:08)
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        ^                                               START
         -------<---------------<-----------<-------------
        SW Mediterranean (Nu34-05)           SE Tzin Desert (Nu34-03)



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