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VERSE: Dt09-25a


===================== Dt09-25a ===============================


VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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Rashi commentators (such as Dr Leibowtiz and Rabbi
Boncheck) are traditionally associated with Rashis
explanations of the WORD (meaning) and SENTENCE(Grammar)

An equally important part of Rashis methods apply to
ENTIRE BIBLICAL PARAGRAPHS. Many people, including
distinguished Rabbis, frequently miss the point that
Rashi is commenting on OVERALL PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE.

The 13 Rabbi Ishmael Rules are actually guidelines
of style. The THEME-DETAIL-THEME method suggests viewing
the paragraph as a whole with the details exemplifying
the general theme.

EXAMPLE
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THEME  PRAYER BY GOLDEN CALF Dt09-18:21
DETAIL Many other REBELLIONS Dt09-22:24
THEME  Text of Prayer------- Dt09-25:29

Rashis brilliant insight is that the TEXT OF PRAYER not
only refers to the actual prayer at the Golden calf- but
rather the TEXT OF PRAYER refers to the STANDARD PRAYERS
that Moses made at each rebellion! In other words, in
accordance with Rabbi Ishmael we generalize*1. In fact the
lists below show other prayers of Moses and their similarity
to the Golden Calf prayer (thus showing that this prayer
was sort of a standard prayer)
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ITEM                          DETAIL
============================= ================================
RASHI RULE CLASS              RABBI ISHMAEL STYLE
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS           GENERALIZED
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE      #25
SEE BELOW                     LIST411c
THEME-DETAIL-THEME method in  Dt09-18:29 -Moses prays for Jews
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SEE BELOW                     LIST411d
List of paragraphs where      Moses Prayed for Jewish people

NOTES
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*1 There is innovation here. Rashi does not just generalize
   the details. Rather Rashi generalizes the Theme-detail
   relation - The prayer listed in the THEME for the Golden
   calf was also recited at other rebellions (The DETAIL
   section lists 5 other rebellions of the Jews). In
   fact List411d below confirms this assertion of Rashi
==============================================================

======================== LIST411c ==============================

The THEME-DETAIL-THEME structure of Dt09-18:29. The structure
implies that Moses prayed the same way on each rebellion.
See LIST411d for further details
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SECTION TEXT OF THEME SECTION  TEXT OF detail SECTION VERSES
======= ====================== ====================== ==========
THEME   PRAYER BY GOLDEN CALF                         Dt09-18:21
DETAIL  ---------------------- Many other REBELLIONS  Dt09-22:24
THEME   Text of Prayer*1                              Dt09-25:29

NOTES
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*1 Rashis point-- The text of prayer does NOT just refer to
   the specific prayers by the Golden calf--rather, by virtue
   of the theme-detail-theme structure, the text of prayer
   refers to the general prayers Moses made at each rebellion
===============================================================

============================= LIST411d ==============================

We present a list of prayers by Moses to avert disaster
to the Jews(For reasons of space we ignore order and
have also modified phraseology--we are only interested
in which THEMES repeat in Moses prayers)

- The left most column contains the prayer
recorded in Dt09-25:29.

- The middle column shows which phrases of this prayer
were used in the prayer for the Golden calf

- The last column shows which phrases in this prayer were
used when Moses prayed on the spy incident.

Overall this lists shows that Moses had standard prayers
to help the Jews.(For reasons of exposition we have
ignored ORDER of phrases and reworded phrases since our
goal was to show which themes are repeated)
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Dt09-25:29-GENERAL            Ex32-11:14-Gold Calf Nu14-13:20-Spies
============================= ==================== ===================
Dont destroy your nation      Regret your anger    Forgive them
which you redeemed from Egypt You redeemed them    You saved them
Remember the Patriarchs       Remember Patriarchs
Dont review their evil        Why get angry        You always forgive
God cant save so he destroys? Exodus to destroy?   Exodus to destroy?
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