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3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi explains verses using principles of verb conjugation and grammar.
This example applies to Rashis Gn37-31b
URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gn37-31b.htm

    Today we explain a routine rule of Grammar, the construct rule. The underlined words in the following verse illustrates this: Gn37-31b states And they took
  • Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped
  • the coat in the blood;

    Rashi comments
  • The first reference to coat is a possessive reference and hence
    • in English the apostrophe s form is used, Joseph's coat,
    • while in Hebrew, the possessive form, KeToNetH.
  • The second reference to coat is non-possesive and hence
    • in English the word coat is used
    • while in Hebrew the non-possesive form, KuToNeth is used.

Today all school children know how to conjugate the non-possesive vs. the possesive. However in Rashi's time no Grammar textbooks existed---all grammar books were scholarly and esoteric, not for the masses. Rashi through simple examples taught the masses basic concepts of Grammar.


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