We ask the following database query: How many commandments mention a requirement of standing. 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 inference: Several commandments mention a requirement of standing. In some of them the word standing is used contrastively to indicate absstention or waiting. However in the remaining commandments there is a requirement of standing. The list below presents the results of the database query.

Advanced Rashi: Notice how this requirement of standing is echoed in several Rashis. Furthermore the use of the list enriches our understanding of Rashi since we see that the obvious explanation The verse says standing and therefore standing is required does not apply since Jewish law does not always require standing when the verse mentions standing as the above list shows.

Sermonic points: Standing (vs. sitting) requires extra energy and hence symbolically affirms seriousness. It is very reasonable that such activities as testifying against a fellow Jews, deciding not to marry your widowed sister-in-law should only be done after serious, not casual, deliberation, and this is symbolized by performing the act standing not sitting.