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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 Lv13-43b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n14.htm
      Brief Summary: LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF SKIN LEPROSY (Lv13-43) refers to the symptoms of skin leprosy described in (Lv13-02)

    We ask the following database query: What types of leprosy are there; a) how many weeks do we wait before declaring a final lepor status; b) how many shades justify an initial declaration with a subsequent wait. 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:
    • Skin leprosy requires 2 weeks of waiting and is initiated thru 4 shades of white
    • Burn leprosy requires 1 week of waiting and is initiated thru 4 shades
    • (Non bald) Head leprosy requires 2 weeks of waiting and is initiated thru a 1 shade of baldness
    The list below presents the results of the database query.

Verse Item Initial Declaration*1 Waiting Period*2
Lv13-01:17 Skin Leprosy 4 shades 2 weeks
Lv13-18:28 Burn leprosy 4 shades 1 Week
Lv13-29:37 Head*3 leprosy 1 shade of baldness 2 weeks

    Notes to the table:
  • *1: Certain symptoms cause an initial declaration of leprosy. For example if a person has a snow-white patch of adequate size on his skin he receives an initial declaration. The initial declaration causes the person to be shut up for a waiting period. At the end of the waiting period the person is declared pure or final.
  • *2: Just as there are signs for an initial declaration so too there are signs for a final declaration. For example if the initial snow-white patch enlarged after the waiting period the person enters a final lepor status. The final lepor status differs from the initial lepor status in that a sacrificial procedure is needed to purify him or her.
  • *3: There are two types of head leprosy; those for a completely bald head and those for a head with hair. If the head has hair then a bald spot of adequate size creates an initial declaration.

We now return to the Rashi on Lv13-43a: The verse speaks about leprosy on a completely bald head. It speaks about an appearance like the appearance of skin leprosy. Rashi using the above table states: In other words the initial declaration is accomplished thru 4 shades of white and the waiting period is 2 weeks. Here Rashi used the criteria for skin leprosy and bypassed the criteria for other types of leprosy since the verse explicitly required a resemblance to skin leprosy. 


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