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    8. RASHI METHOD: DATABASES
    BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi makes inferences from Database queries. The precise definition of database query has been identified in modern times with the 8 operations of Sequential Query Language (SQL).

    This example applies to Rashis Lv14-36a, Lv13-03c
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1214.htm
    Brief Summary: Other ritual impurities are caused by world events. Leprosy impurity additionally requires a priestly declaration to create the ritually impure status.

We ask the following database query: How are the various types of ritual impurities caused? 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-Midrashic inference: Most types of ritual impurity are caused by world events such as death and sexual discharges. However leprous ritual impurity in addition to a world event - e.g. the white skin patches with white hair - also requires a declaration of a priest to create the ritually impure state. That is a white patch with white hair is in and of itself not ritually impure until a priest declares it ritually impure. This contrast - leprous vs other ritual impurities - is textually indicated by a phrase peculiar to leprosy, ....and the priest shall declare it impure... a phrase which occurs with no other ritual impurity, implying that priestly declaration is a prerequisite for creation of the ritually impure status. The list below presents the results of the database query.

Verse Impurity Area Biblical Text How impurity occurs
Lv11-29 Dead Animals/people These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the rat, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind, These also shall be unclean to you
Lv12-02 Birth Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives, and bears a male child; then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her menstruation, shall she be unclean. Then she shall be unclean seven days;
Lv15-19 Discharges And if a woman has a discharge, and the discharge of her flesh is blood, she shall be put apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Nu19-08 Red Heiffer Procedure And he who burns it shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. he shall be unclean until the evening
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Lv13-20 Leprosy And if, when the priest sees it, behold, it looks lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease of leprosy broken out from the boil. the priest shall pronounce him unclean


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