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    9. RASHI METHOD: SPREADSHEETS
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This example applies to Rashis Ex34-29a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1303.htm
    Brief Summary: Moses ascended Mount Sinai 3 times: To receive the 10 oommandments twice and to request forgiveness for the sin of the golden calf; When he came down from the 2nd 10 commandments his face beamed

It is a well known Rashi that there wer 3 ascents of Moses on the mount, for 40 days each, resulting in forgiveness on the Day of Atonement. This is literally a spreadsheet listing a chronology. It is presented below with the source verses and the events that happened.

Dt. Verse Ex. Verse Ascent # Purpose of Ascent Dates for 40 days
Dt09-09:11 Ex24-18 #1 Receive 1st Tablets 7 Sivan - 17 Tamuz
Dt09-18 Ex32-30 #2 Prayer to forgive golden calf sin 19 Tamuz - 29 Av
Dt09-25:29 Ex32-30 #2 Prayer to forgive golden calf sin 19 Tamuz - 29 Av
Dt10-01:05 Ex34-27:29 #3 Receive 2nd Tablets 1 Elul - 10 Tishray

    There are variety of nuances in the table. For example
  • Final forgiveness (2nd tablets) happened on 10 Tishray, Yom Kippur.
  • The first tablets were broken on 17 Tamuz, a national fast day.
  • There are 0 or 1 day lapses e.g between 17 Tamuz and 19 Tamuz or between revelation, 6 Sivan, and ascent to the mountain, 7 Sivan. These are indicated in the Biblical text by such phrases as and on the morrow...

Rashi translates Ex34-29a as follows: And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of Testimony in Moses’ hand,[ that is, the day after Yom Kippur, after the 2nd receipt of the ten commandments, which happened after the first tablets were broken and Moses obtained forgiveness for the sin of the Golden Calf] when he came down from the mount,Moses knew not that his facial skin beamed after God prophesied to Moses. 


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