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Today is a peach of an example of the Rashi Format method.
Most people identify Rashi with comments on meaning, grammar, alignment
and extra words. I have introduced the idea that some Rashis are commenting
on none of the above-instead they are commenting on Format and Structure, that is,
inferences are made from the Structure / Format of the Biblical paragraphs rather
than from their contents.
In today's example Rashi simply points out how successive verses echo each other.
Rashi points out for example how good and life in one verse refers to Loving
God and living a long life in the next verse. In fact Rashi makes half a dozen
comments and each comment is simply a structural comment that words and phrases
in one verse echo similar word and phrases in subsequent verses. I have changed the order
of one of the verses to hi-light the Rashi comments. As I pointed out in my article
Biblical Formatting by
taking advantage of modern formatting techniques (such as tables) we can literally
see the Rashi comments before our very eyes.
Dt30-15 |
See, I have set before thee this day
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good
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and life,
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and evil
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and death,
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Dt30-16 |
in that I command thee this day |
to love HaShem thy G-d, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances;
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then thou shalt live and multiply, and HaShem thy G-d shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
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Dt30-17:18 |
But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away,
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and worship other gods, and serve them;
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I declare unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
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Rashi comment based on column structure: |
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Good = Loving God |
- If you do good then you will live.
- Life = you will live and multiply.
| Evil = Worship other Gods
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Advanced Rashi: The serious student of Rashi should study this beautiful
example. Take a Chumash and Rashi and literally see how each column in the table above
corresponds to one Rashi. For example the Rashi comment:
The word Good in Dt30-15 corresponds to the phrase Love Hashem
in Dt30-16. This Rashi comment is succinctly presented by the columnar
alignment of phrases. Similarly for the other Rashi comments.
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