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    6. RASHI METHOD: STYLE
    Rashi examines how rules of style influences inferences between general and detail statements in paragraphs.
    • Example: Every solo example stated by the Bible must be broadly generalized;
    • Theme-Detail: A general principle followed by an example is interpreted restrictively---the general theme statement only applies in the case of the example;
    • Theme-Detail-Theme: A Theme-Detail-Theme unit is interpreted as a paragraph. Consequently the details of the paragraph are generalized so that they are seen as illustrative of the theme.
    This examples applies to Rashis Nu33-53a, Nu33-52a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/nu33-53a.htm
    Brief Summary: CONQUER the land IN ORDER TO DWELL in it (It suffices to EXPEL inhabitants).

When a modern author wishes to create a paragraph (s)he surrounds the paragraph sentences with one line of white empty space, thereby indicating that the group of sentences forms one paragraph. Since they form one paragraph the group of sentences is perceived as having one underlying theme, indicated by the general theme sentence. This theme is developed by the detail sentences.

    We use the Biblical Paragraph Nu33-50:56 which has a structure indicating
  • General Theme: Conquer the land
  • Developmental Detail: Dwell in it
  • General Theme: Conquer the land

Hence the Rashi comment(s): Conquer the land in order to dwell in it. The reason for the conquest is that you can't live with the Canaanite nations because their practices will lead you away from Judaism. But it e.g. suffices to expel the inhabitants (instead of killing them). The goal is dwelling.

    We present the actual verses below. We use underline to confirm the above Rashi comment:
  • General Theme: Conquer the land Nu33-50:52
    And HaShem spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then ye shall conquer / drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
  • Developmental Detail: Dwell in it Nu33-53:54
    And ye shall conquer / drive out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it. ######
  • General Theme: Conquer the land Nu33-55:56
    But if ye will not conquer / drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you. 


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