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VERSE: Ex27-20d

RASHIS COVERED: Ex27-20d Ex27-21a Ex28-11d

=================== RASHI FILLS IN VERSES ======================

BACKGROUND
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Ex27 and Ex28 are describing how the Jews make oil to enable
the Temple Candellabrah to burn all night. It also describes
the making of the priestly garments e.g. It describes how
stones were set in the garments.

THE TEXT
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Make lights ALWAYS in the temple

THE RASHI
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The word ALWAYS could mean CONTINUOUSLY or CONTINUALLY. That is
it could mean that the light of the candellabrah burns ALL
24 HOURS or it could mean that the candellabrah is lit every
night.

Rashi explains that in this verse ALWAYS means CONTINUALLY
He derives this from the explicit statement in the verse
MAKE LIGHTS CONTINUALLY FROM EVE TO DAWN--thus ALWAYS means
EVERY night, and ALL night.

THE LIST
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The list below contains some verses and some ambiguous
phrases that Rashi interpets by FILLING IN the text. Rashis
goal here was to facilitate understanding of ambiguous texts.
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VERSE     TEXT OF VERSE          RASHIS POINT IS THAT...
========= ====================== ===============================
Ex27-20   Take oil
Ex27-20   to make
Ex27-20d  CONTINUAL lights.      CONTINUAL=NIGHTLY,not ALWAYS*1
Ex27-21   In the Temple
Ex27-21   outside the Paroceth
Ex27-21   Aaron & his sons
Ex27-21   will prepare the light
Ex27-21a  [TO BURN]
Ex27-21a  from evening to dawn   EVE-TO-DAWN modifies TO BURN*2
Ex27-21   before God
....      ....                   ..........
Ex28-11   Engrave the stones
Ex28-11   with the names
Ex28-11   of the Jewish tribes
Ex28-11   make the stones
Ex28-11a  SURROUNDED with        SURROUNDED modifies SETTINGS*3
Ex28-11a  SETTINGS

NOTES
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*1 The Hebrew word TAMID means ALWAYS. The word ALWAYS
   can mean CONTINUOUSLY, DAILY or NIGHTLY.

   For example Ex29-38 speaks about ALWAYS OFFERING 2 SACRIFICES
   A DAY. Hence, in that verse, ALWAYS refers to DAILY not to
   ALWAYS. Usually the meaning of ALWAYS can be inferred from
   the context. Here is a small list of verses with ALWAYS
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   MEANING OF ALWAYS SAMPLE VERSE    TEXT OF VERSE
   ----------------- --------------- ---------------------------
   CONTINUOUSLY      Ps71-14         I will ALWAYS hope
   DAILY             Ex29-38         2 offerings a day, always
   NIGHTLY           Ex27-20:21      ALWAYS lit from eve to dawn
   -------------------------------------------------------------
   In this verse ALWAYS means NIGHTLY since it explicitly says
   ALWAYS, FROM EVE TO DAWN

*2 The verse means
   -------------------------------------------------------------
   prepare the lights with enough oil [TO BURN] from eve to dawn
   -------------------------------------------------------------

   Rashi inserted the elliptical phrase [TO BURN] which clarifies
   the meaning.

   Without the added phrase the verse sounds like it is saying
   -----------------------------------
   PREPARE the lights FROM EVE TO DAWN
   -----------------------------------
   that is, it sounds as if it is saying the priest should
   prepare the lights the whole night.

*3 THe word SURROUND means to ENCIRCLE. In this verse it
   takes on a new meaning---it refers to stone settings that
   SURROUND the whole stone (vs stone settings that eg just
   surround half the stone).

   The way we have translated the verse
   ------------------------------
   stone SURROUNDED with SETTINGS
   ------------------------------
   makes this clear.

   However without the Rashi I might have thought that SURROUND
   is a SYNONYM for SETTINGS and that the idea of SETTINGS is
   repeated. That is the verse could have been translated
   ------------------------------
   SURROUNDED stones--SET stones
   ------------------------------
   in which case SURROUND and SET would mean the same thing.

   Rashi translated the verse so that SURROUND and SET were
   not synonyms but rather SuRROUND modifies the meaning
   of SET---it is a TOTALLY SURROUNDED setting.
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