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When Rashi uses, what we may losely call, the hononym method, Rashi
does not explain new meaning but rather shows an underlying unity in disparate
meanings. Rashi will frequently do this by showing an underlying unity in
the varied meanings of a Biblical root.
Today we examine the Biblical root Ayin-Beth-Resh whose basic meaning is side. Hence we have the following additional meanings:
- To Pass: To move past the side;
- Mountain pass: (identical usage in English!);
- Anger: go past one's borders
- pregnant: pregnancy is recognizable becuase her side expands and changes;
- and produce: when mother earth becomes pregnant; again the emphasis is that land produce is recognizable by the side of the earth
rising;
- cement/fixate a wall: strengthen/define the sides of the building;
- To cause: After doing an act the consequence is what is on the other side;
- announce: as in English, to pass a message through a community - to make sure it reaches all sides;
A nifty way of appreciating Rashi comments is to directly
embed them in verses. Rashi would translate Lv25-09:10 as
Then shall you announce by trumpet(shofar) on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall you
announce by trumpet(shofar) throughout your country that:
'you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants of it; it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family'.
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