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      2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
      • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
      • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
      • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
      • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
      • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
      This examples applies to Rashis Nu34-15a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gn03-24a.htm
      Brief Summary: EAST=before: WEST=backside: SOUTH=right: NORTH=left

A powerful Rashi method is the use of literary techniques available in all languages. One such technique is synechdoche, which names items by good examples of them.

    Let us apply this to naming the four compass directions. A good example of the four compass directions is the first astronomical incident of the day,
  • the rise of the sun in the east which happens before anything else. When you face the sun in the east,
  • then the west is in Back of you.
  • Furthermore your right hand points southward while your
  • left hand points northward.

    Hence the simple Rashi based on the synechdoche, good-example method:
  • before means east
  • back means west
  • right means south
  • left Means north. 


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