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VERSE: Dt32-20c

RASHIS COVERED: Dt32-20c Dt32-20d Dt28-59b
                Gn15-06a Ex17-12d Dt28-66b

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SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 5 main goals is to explain meaning the same
way a dictionary explains meaning. Rashi had a variety
of vehicles to explain meaning. One of Rashis methods was
to focus on known words and present unfamiliar nuances
of them.

EXAMPLE Presenting a unified theme to a root
Dt28-59b Gn15-06a Ex17-12d Dt28-66b
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AMN is traditionally translated as FAITH. But
Rashi explains that AMN is an adverb denoting TOTAL
DEVOTION TO ANOTHER BEING THAT IS TOTALLY DEPENDENT
ON THE 1st BEING. Hence AMN has the following 5 meanings

- NURSE - the infant is TOTALLY DEPENDENT on her
- SCULPTOR - the statute gets its ENTIRE form from him
- CANCER - not just any disease--but cancer makes the host
  totally dependent and subservient to it
- INCAPACITATED - loss of dependency on the self
  DEPENDABLE/RELIABLE - something you can depend on

We now understand the traditional translation--FAITH--which
indicates (in Biblical Hebrew) that the person of FAITH
totally Devotes him/herself to that which they have faith in
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        WORD MEANINGS
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS      UNIFIED MEANING
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #7
SEE BELOW                LIST863i
List of verses with root AMN=Totally devoted:Nurse,Sculptor,cncr
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====================== LIST863i ===================================
List of verses with root AMN=Totally devoted:Nurse,Sculptor,cncr*10
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VERSE    MEANING       Relation to idea that AMN=TOTALLY DEVOTED
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Dt28-59b CANCER        cells make host TOTALLY subservient to it
-------  --------      -----------------------------------
Ex04-01  DEPEND*2      They wont TOTALLY DEVOTE themselves to leave
Gn42-20  DEPENDABLE    Prove your case &we can TOTALLY depend onyou
Dt32-20c DEPENDABLE    They are not DEPENDABLE children*3
Dt32-20d DEPENDABLE    They are not DEPENDABLE children*3
-------  --------      -----------------------------------
Gn15-06a DEVOTED TO GD Abraham TOTALLY devoted himself to vision*1
Ex17-12d DEVOTED PRAY  Hands CONTINUOUSLY/TOTALLY gestured prayr
-------  --------      -----------------------------------
Dt28-66b INCAPACITATED lose capacity to TOTALLY depend on self
-------  --------      -----------------------------------
Es02-07  NURSE/RAISE   He TOTALLY DEVOTED himself to raising her
Dt32-20c NURSE/RAISE*3 Children who dont show signs of BEING RAISED
Dt32-20d NURSE/RAISE*3 Children who dont show signs of BEING RAISE
-------  --------      -----------------------------------
So07-02  SCULPTURE     Statute is TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON HIM

NOTES
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*1 Rashis actual comment is
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   Abraham had AMN on the vision of the STARS
   but asked for details on the vision of inheritance
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   I would trasnlate AMN as TOTALLY DEVOTED. So the
   Rashi would mean

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   Abraham knew hot to TOTALLY DEVOTE himself to the
   vision of the STARS (which are typically symbols of
   the Angelic life---so Abraham who walked continuously
   in Gods path DEVOTED his entire being to this type
   of life).

   But Abraham did not know HOW TO devote himself
   that his children should INHERIT the land. God
   responded to him with the vision of the cut animals
   and the prophecy of sojournship in Egypt---in other
   words by being sojourners they merited to inherit
   the land (of Israel).

   Thus our innovation here is to translate Abrahams
   question of HOW DO I INHERIT IT--not as a question
   about FACT--will I inherit or not--but rather as a
   question about METHOD--how should I totally devote
   myself

*2 We brought these other verses in to show that the
   traditional translation of FAITH/BELIEVE is better
   understood in terms of TOTAL DEPENDANCY

   Thus in Ex04-01 Moses complained that the Jews would
   not BELIEVE (AMN) him when he did miracles.

   Moses did not mean that people wouldnt believe he
   is a prophet. Rather, people would vacillate
   and not TOTALLY DEVOTE THEMSELVES to the cause
   of freedom.

*3 Rashi gives two explanations to Dt32-20
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   - my Jewish children are UNDEPENDABLE
   - my children look like children who have not been RAISED
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   Thus Rashi translates the root AMN as either
   - not DEPENDABLE
   - not RAISED

   Both translations MAKE SENSE and FIT WELL.
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*10 This approach to AMN as TOTALLY DEVOTED was largely
    inspired by Rabbi Hirschs commentary on Gn15-06
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