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    9. RASHI METHOD: SPREADSHEETS
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This example applies to Rashis Nu34-03a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n24.htm
    Brief Summary: The SOUTHERN boundary of Israel is (from east to west) Moab-Jordan river, Edom, Egypt-Nile.

Todays Rashi presents a map, a geographical description, of Israeli geography and the surrounding (Biblical countries. The map is presented below and appropriate footnotes outline Rashi's comment. Because Rashi clarifies diagrammatic material we classify this Rashi as non-Verse.

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MAP OF SOUTHERN BORDER OF ISRAEL AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES
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'                |                 |
'                |  NORTH          |-----
'                |  ISRAEL         |    |
'                |                 |    | Sichon, Og
'                |W              E |    --------------
'  Pelishtim     |E              A |    |           |
'                |S              S | J  |           |
'                |T              T | O  |           |
'                |                 | R  |           |
'                |                 | D  | MOAB      |
'                |   ISRAEL        | A  |           |
'                |   SOUTH         | N  |           |
'                |                 |    |           |
----------------------|-----------------|           |
'                     |                 |           |
'  Egypt              |  Edom           |-------------
'                     |                 |
'                     |                 |
'                     |                 |
'                     |                 |
'                     |                 |

    Rashi comments on the above map.
  • The southern border of Israel is from East to West, part of Moab, all of Edom and part of Egypt.
  • This map is indicated in the Biblical test. Nu34-04 explicitly states that the border rolls to Atzmon, .... of Egypt going out to the sea.
  • When the Jews left Egypt they could have, to enter Israel, gone northward from Egypt along the Western border of Israel. But if they had done that they would have encountered the military fierce Pelishtim and God wanted to spare the Jews from a confrontation with the Pelishtim (Ex13-17)
  • So the Jews left Egypt and
    • a) traversed the southern part of Edom (Because Edom refused them passage through their land to Israel,
    • b)and then along the southern portion of Moab
    • c) and then along the eastern part of Moab (Because Moab also refused entry into Israel into their land Ju11-17:18)
    • d) and then to the lands of Og and Sichon. Og and Sichon declared war on the Jews who conquered them and took their land (Which was inherited by Reuven, Gad and half the Maneshites).
    • e) The Jews then entered Israel (40 years after the Exodus) through the Jordan which was on the West of the conquered Og-Sichon lands and on the East of Israel. 


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