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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 Lv20-15a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n9.htm
      Brief Summary: Kill an animal who sexually sinned; how much more so a person who sexually sin.

We ask the following database query: Does the Torah symbolically affirm moral values on people by transferring them to animals,plants and objects? 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: The Torah frequently symbolically affirms moral values on people by transferring them to animals, plants and objects. For example one must execute an animal who sexually sinned with a person. This symbolically implies the seriousness of people who sexually sin. The list below presents the results of the database query.

Verse Verse Text Symbolic Moral Point Point made on...
Ex20-23a Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon Don't embarass stones by exposing your nakedness before them Stones
Lv20-15a And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast Execute an animal that has sexually sinned Animal
Dt12-02 Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree Destroy idolatrous trees Trees

    Here is a brief summary of the Rashi logic: The Torah admonishes us to
    • Execute sexually sinning animals; similarly we execute sexually sinning people;
    • Destroy idolatrous trees; similarly we execute idolatrous people
    • Not embarass stones by showing our nakedness; how much more so that we should not embarass people. 


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