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    4. RASHI METHOD: ALIGNMENT
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Aligning two almost identically worded verselets can suggest
    • (4a) 2 cases of the same incident or law
    • (4b) emphasis on the nuances of a case
    • (4c) use of broad vs literal usage of words
     This examples applies to Rashis Nu28-02f
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1224.htm
    Brief Summary: a) My sacrifice ...Offer to Me IN ITS TIME b) This is the fire...offer to God....TWO PER DAY RASHI: The TIME of the daily offering is every day.

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses or verselets in Nu28-02:03 Both verses/verselets discuss the requirement to offer a daily offering. The alignment justifies the Rashi comment that: The phrase in its appointed season aligns with twice a day justifying the inference that the appointed season of this sacrifice is daily. Hence we call it the daily offering.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Nu28-02
  1. Command the Jews and tell them
  2. my sacrifice, my bread, dedicated for my fires, my sweet savior: Watch it
  3. to offer it
  4. to me
  5. in its appointed season.
The phrase in its appointed season aligns with twice a day justifying the inference that the appointed season of this sacrifice is daily. Hence we call it the daily offering
Nu28-03
  1. And tell them
  2. This is the fire that you should
  3. offer
  4. to God,
  5. new-born lambs two per day a perpetual up offering

Advanced Rashi: Most alignments create their inferences by exposing two cases or nuances especially nuances hinted at by silences and omissions. Today we explored an alignment that makes inferences on meaning based on aligned phrases.


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