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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Nu15-22a Nu15-22b Nu15-27a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n23.htm
      Brief Summary: Brief Summary: This sin offering is brought for violating ALL commandments if IT was done inadvertently. This speaks about IDOLATRY sins, a SINGLE sin equal to ALL commandments.

These Rashi comments involve 5 Rashi rules. The reader can read each rule separately, or, read in the following sequence: Rule #3, Rule #4, Rule #5, Rule #7, Rule #8. By viewing the Rashi's from many perspectives we obtain a more wholistic view.

Two familiar functions of grammar in all languages are pronoun reference and plurality.

    To appreciate the Rashi comment note the shifting plural and singular in verses Nu14-22:25 And if you have erred, and not observed
  • all these [plural] commandments [plural], which the Lord ...
  • Then it shall be, if it [singular] is committed by ignorance ...
  • that all the congregation shall offer ... and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their inadvertent sin [singular];

We see contradictory indications - the sin is simultaneously plural and singular. We have laid the grammatical foundation for this contradiction here in the grammar rule. We will resolve the contradiction below in rule #5. In rule #4 we will further support the contradiction by comparing to other sin offerings.

Rashi's basic approach is that we are talking about a sin offering for one commandment that is akin to all commandments: that is, the sin of idolatry.


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