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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Nu26-01a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n2.htm
      Brief Summary: BECAUSE of the loss of Jews in the plague (and BECAUSE of God's love for the Jews), God ordered a census to show appreciation for the remaining.

Verse Nu25-09 describing the plague that God brought on the Jews for sexually sinning with the Midianite women states ...And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand. ... Verse Nu26-01 describing the census God took of the Jewish people after the plague states ######

Rashi connects these two verse citations using the Consecutive Paragraph Connection method of causality.. That is Rashi sees one verse, describing the plague, as the cause of the second verse, describing the counting: We summarize the Rashi comment below by interpolating the connective word because: Because of the loss of Jews in the plague (and because of God's love for the Jews), God ordered a census to show appreciation for the remaining Jews.


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