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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 Ex29-14a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n9.htm
      Brief Summary: Remember Egypt: No a) inequality, b) impurity, c) bad business practices. d) God saved you.

We ask the following database query: Which commandments mention that they should be observed becauase 'you are to remember that God took you out of Egypt'? 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: Commemoration of the salvation from Egypt is emphasized as a reason for commandment observance in laws prohibiting a) social inequality b) ritual impurity c) anxiety-business practices as well as in laws requiring d) acknowledgement of salvation from Egypt by God. The list below presents the results of the database query and shows examples

Verses Verse Content Theme Contradicts Egyptian practice of...
Dt15-15,Dt05-14a Dt16-12, Dt24-18 Treat slaves, orphans, widows nicely. Equality ..slavery.
Lv22-33, Lv11-45, Nu15-41, Ex29-46 Avoid the ritual impurity associated with contact with the dead Purity / holiness ...disassociating a person and destroying his will by continuous exposure to death.
Lv25-38, Lv19-36 Avoid anxiety producing business practices (imprecise weights, loaning on interest). Business atmosphere Disassociating a person and destroying his will by continuous exposure to anxiety producing business practices (like imprecise weights).
Ex20-01:03 / Ex29-46 Acknowledge God as having saved you from Egypt God Saves ...believing that any slave could escape from Egypt.

To understand this list we take a simple example: Dt05-14a:15. discussing the obligation to treat slaves and orphans nicely. This verse states ##### that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. And thou shalt remember that thou was a slave in the land of Egypt, and HaShem thy G-d brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore HaShem thy G-d commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. As can be seen by the underlined words, the Biblical obligation to let slaves/servants rest on the Sabbath is linked to remembering the Exodus. This linkage between the commandment and the exodus, does not occur at all commandments. However this linkage occurs here because the essence of Egypt consisted of a class society in which certain people were free and certain people were slaves. Consequently, any commandment attacking class distinctions - such as the requirement to equally let owners and slaves rest on the Sabbath - will explicitly mention the Exodus. The other examples are interpreted similarly.


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