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      2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
      • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
      • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
      • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
      • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
      • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
      This examples applies to Rashis Dt15-07d
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n3.htm
      Brief Summary: Synonyms for charity refusal: Don't be TIGHT; Don't be HURRIED

Verse Dt15-07d states If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not be tight, nor hurried with your poor brother;

From context, we see that the underlined words tight and hurried are synonyms for charity refusal. Normally these words have other meanings. The Bible in effect creates new usages - idioms - from these words that apply to charity refusal. Rashi clarifies the exact nuances of these new idiomatic usages.

    Rashi makes comments based on common sense:
  • To be tight about charity means to refuse to give charity.
  • To be hurried about charity means to give half-heartedly with a sour face. 


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