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    4. RASHI METHOD: ALIGNMENT
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Aligning two almost identically worded verselets can suggest
    • (4a) 2 cases of the same incident or law
    • (4b) emphasis on the nuances of a case
    • (4c) use of broad vs literal usage of words
    This examples applies to Rashis Gn31-17a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n5.htm
    Brief Summary: Esauv took 1) Wives and 2) male children. Jacob took 1)male Children and 2)wives. Jacob showed respect for the women by allowing the males to lead.

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses in Gn31-17a, Gn36-06 Both verses discuss fathers taking wives and children on a trip. The alignment justifies the Rashi assertion that Jacob preserved the gender role models (men lead) while Esauv did not (women lead). The propriety and implications of this will be discussed in the sermonic points section.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Gn31-17a Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; Jacob let the men lead (Sons first, women second)
Gn36-06 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his wealth, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went to another country, away from his br Esauv let the women lead (Women first, men second).

Advanced Rashi: Sexually, men and women differ physiologically. Male performance is not involuntary. Society has therefore created social structures to show respect for the male need to perform by allowing men to go first. By symbolically affirming that we 


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