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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 Lv02-03a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1407.htm
      Brief Summary: The leftovers of the Minchah offering will belong a) TO Aaron and b) TO his children. RASHI: Aaron=High Priest always gets 1st; children = ordinary priests, divide.

We have explained in our article Biblical Formatting located on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf, that the Biblical Author indicated bullets by using repeating keywords.

That is, if a modern author wanted to get a point across using bullets - a list of similar but contrastive items - then the Biblical Author would use repeating keywords. Today's verse illustrates this principle.

Bullets whether indicated through modern notation or through the Biblical method of repeating keywords always indicate contrastive emphasis - that is, each bullet is presumed to be a distinct item contrasted to the other items on the list. Very often the bullets are also used to indicate that the entire list of exhaustive of some spectrum.

    Verse(s) Lv02-03a discussing the consumption of leftover Mincha's by Priests states And the leftovers of the Minchah offering will belong
    • to Aaron [the High Priest] and
    • to his sons [ordinary Priests].
    The repeated underlined phrase to creates a bullet effect. The bullet effect in turn creates an emphasis on the distinctness of all enumerated items. Rashi interprets the distinctness as follows
    • The High Priest always takes the 1st portion (as much as he wants) while
    • The ordinary Priests divide the rest amongst themselves. 


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