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      7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
      • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
      • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
      • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
      • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
      This example applies to Rashis Nu15-27a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n33.htm
      Brief Summary: There are two paragraphs discussing communal and personal sin offerings respectively. Since the first paragraph deals with idolatry so too for the 2nd paragraph.

The format rule requires inferences from formatting items such as bold, italics, underline, and bullets. The format rule also requires inferences from paragraph structure and sequence. Today's example illustrates this.

Verses Nu14-22:26, Nu14-27:31 form a sequence of two consecutive paragraphs discussing offerings. The main discussion of offerings occurs in Lv. The specific purpose of these sin offerings mentiohed in Numbers is not explicitly indicated there. However we have derived above in rules,#3, #4,#5, that the Bible, in Nu14-22:26, is speaking about an idolatry sin offering which is not discussed elsewhere in the Bible.

Hence the elegant but punchy Rashi: Just as the first paragraph discussing communal offerings is discussing the idolatry offering, so too the 2nd paragraph discussing individual offerings, is discussing idolatry offerings.

Advanced Rashi: The technical rule used here is inference from consecutive paragraphs. This rule is used throughout the Talmud. Certain Talmudic Rabbis believed that the consecutive paragraph rule only applied in Genesis - Numbers but did not apply to Deuteronomy. We have further classified the consecutive paragraph rule under the formatting rule. 


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