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    7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
    BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
    • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
    • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
    • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
    • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
    This examples applies to Rashis Nu35-16a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/nu35-16a.htm
    Brief Summary: Make 6 refuge cities for NEGLIGENT murder (Nu35-09:15) a) Willful murder tried (Nu35-16:21); b) Negligent murder goes there (Nu35-22:28)

    Rashi's comment on the verses we study is
  • not on word meaning
  • not on grammar
  • But rather on overall paragraph structure. From the structure we infer meaning as shown below. Rashi's sole comment is that The second bulleted paragraph below deals with willful murder (as indicated by the underlined phrases) while the first paragraph deals with negligent murder (as indicated by the underlined words).

    Biblical chapter Nu35 describes treatment of murderers.
  • Nu35-09:15 - Build 6 Refuge cities:
    And HaShem spoke unto Moses, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, ... then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither. ... For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, ...
  • Nu35-16:21 - A willful murderer is executed:
    But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be executed.... And if he smote him with a ... Or if he smote him with a ... The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; ... And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him ... he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood ....
  • Nu35-22:28 - A negligent murderer goes to Refuge cities:
    But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait, or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, .... 


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