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VERSE: Dt07-12a

======================== Dt07-12a =============

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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Dt06-20:25 and Dt07-01:10 ask the
Jews  to do several commandments
- teach their children
- dont do favors to idolaters
- destroy their idols
- Have faith in God
- No intermarriage
These are DETAILED laws.

The chapter concludes with a GENERAL COMMENT
-if you observe THESE  laws God will watch you

Clearly, the phrase THESE LAWS refers to the
preceding commandments. Rashi further explains
that  people tend to act like these commandments
are general guidelines on which we dont have to
work(eg faith, no favors to idolaters etc).
Therefore the Torah emphasizes we should be
especially careful about them.*10
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        RABBI ISHMAEL STYLE
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS      GENERALIZED
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #25
SEE BELOW                LIST450d
Detail Climax method in  Dt06-20:25, Dt07-01:09

NOTES
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----------------- LONGER FOOTNOTES ------------

*10 Traditionally Rashi is understood as making
    a pun on the Hebrew word Ayin-Kuf-Beth
    which can simultaneously mean CONSEQUENCE
    or SIDE ISSUES. So when the verse says
    that AS A CONSEQUENCE OF  OBSERVING THESE
    LAWS GOD WILL WATCH YOU Rashi claims the
    verse to mean WHEN YOU OBSERVE THESE
    COMMANDMENTS WHICH PEOPLE CONSIDER SIDE
    ISSUES GOD WILL WATCH YOU

    But that does NOT mean that Rashi was
    deriving his inference from the  PUN -
    CONSEQUENCE---SIDE-ISSUE.

    Rather Rashi was being broad and deep;
    He derived the comment from the overall
    paragraph structure (DETAIL - GENERAL).
    He then summarized the comment in
    the form of a PUN.
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=============== LIST450d =======================

The DETAIL-GENERAL form of Dt06-20:25 and
Dt07-01:12. The Torah lists a collection of
laws and then advises us that if we observe
these laws God will protect us. The overall
paragraph structure clearly identifies that
the concluding sentence OBSERVE THESE LAWS
refers to the PRECEDING LIST OF LAWS
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VERSE      Commandment involved - Text of Verse
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Dt06-20:25 educate children
Dt07-02    avoid idolaters
Dt07-02    dont do them favors
Dt07-03    no intermarriage
Dt07-05    destroy all their idolatry
Dt07-09    Know God
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Dt07-11:12 If you watch these laws God protects

NOTES
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------------------ LONGER FOOTNOTES -------------

*10 Traditionally Rashi is understood as making
    a pun on the Hebrew word Ayin-Kuf-Beth
    which can simultaneously mean CONSEQUENCE
    or SIDE ISSUES. So when the verse says
    that AS A CONSEQUENCE OF  OBSERVING THESE
    LAWS GOD WILL WATCH YOU Rashi claims the
    verse to mean WHEN YOU OBSERVE THESE
    COMMANDMENTS WHICH PEOPLE CONSIDER SIDE
    ISSUES.

    But that does NOT mean that Rashi was
    deriving his inference from the  PUN -
    CONSEQUENCE---SIDE-ISSUE.

    Rather Rashi was being broad and deep;
    He derived the comment from the overall
    paragraph structure (DETAIL - GENERAL).
    He then summarized the comment in
    the form of a PUN.

    As one peruses the list of Mitzvoth
    one finds that most of these
    commandments (all except the prohibition
    against intermarriage) refer to general
    guidelines -- faith, not praising
    idolaters, -- which most people do not
    devote alot of time to.

    Hence Rashis observations that people
    treat these commandments LIGHTLY (Nobody
    treats FAITH lightly but rather people dont
    spend time and money on FAITH the
    way they spend time and money on
    purchasing Tefillin).

    In other words we are INTERPRETING LIGHTLY
    to refer to the AMOUNT OF WORK done for
    the commandment not to its importance.
    I think the above represents an
    alternative way of looking at Rashi
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