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VERSE: Gn49-06a

RASHIS COVERED: Gn49-06a Gn49-06b Gn49-06e Gn49-06f

======================== Gn49-06a =============================

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 5 main goals is to explain overall structure
This is particularly true in poetic passages. We have
advocated that the best way to understand a poetic passage
is to
- identify the unifying idea
- review the clauses supporting this unifying idea
- emphasize nuances in these verses

EXAMPLE Gn49-06
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Jacob states: Simon/Levi are criminals-No association with them
Jacob develops this theme
- I dont want part of their logic
- I dont want part of their mob scenes
- BECAUSE They killed a city
- BECAUSE They pillaged a city

Rashi then adds further details by referring to Gn34
- Their logic to kill a city BECAUSE THEY RAPED OUR SISTER
- Their mob scenes killing an entire city
- They killed the city of Schem where Dinah was raped
- They pillaged the city of Schem

It seems to me that this is the simple meaning of the text
However Rashi following the Midrash adds TYPICAL EXAMPLES
IN THE FUTURE*1
- Their logic in Midyanite Rebellion - WE CAN MARRY LIKE MOSES
- Their mob scene by Korach
- their attempts to kill Joseph
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        BULLETS
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS      BULLETING
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #26
SEE BELOW                LIST106n
List of                  Poetic clauses in Gn49-06

NOTES
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*1 This seems to me to be the simple way of taking
   Rashi--namely the verse does refer to Schem--
   but to enrich our understanding of the verse
   Rashi shows similar examples in the future.

   In other words it is not NECESSARY to assume
   that Rashi believed the PRIMARY MEANING of
   the verse refered to the future.
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========================== Gn49-06a ===========================
List of                  Poetic clauses in Gn49-06
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VERSE    TEXT OF VERSE                         PAST    FUTURE
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Gn49-06a My soul will not come in their logic  Schem*1 Midyan*2
Gn49-06b My soul: Do not come to their mobs    Schem*3 Korach*4
Gn49-06e For they killed people*6 in anger     Schem*5 Joseph*6
Gn49-06f For they pillaged/castrated livestock Schem*7 Joseph

NOTES
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*1 Gn34-31 Shimon and Levi killed a city because
   THEY TREATED OUR SISTER LIKE A HARLOT*10

*2 Nu26-05 A high ranking Simonian prince
   had relations publicly before the whole
   congregation. The suggestion was that the
   Simonian prince used the following logic
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   If you Moses could marry a Midiyanite
   why cant we
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*3 Gn34-25 Shimon and Levi killed a city

*4 Nu16 -- Shimonites incited a rebellion against Moses

*5 Gn34-25 Shimon and Levi killed a whole city

*6 See http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gn49-05a.htm in
   this digest (Volume 20 Number 14) It was Shimon
   who tried to kill Joseph (See Gn37-19)

   At a simple level Rashi is simply generalizing
   everything in the verse. That is, not only were
   Shimon and Levi violent in Schem they were also
   evil and violent in many other places.

   However Rashi is also commenting on the
   use of the singular in the verse. Instead of
   the verse saying
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   In their anger they killed PEOPLE
   When they felt like it they castrated OXEN
   ------------------------------------------

   It instead says
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   In their anger they killed a PERSON
   When they felt like it they castrated the OX
   --------------------------------------------

   Rashi points out that military victories can
   be described either against a PERSON or against
   a PEOPLE. However the use of the singular suggests
   that Shimon and Levi sinned against a single
   person besides a whole city.

*7 See Gn34-28. It explicitly says that Shimon
   and Levi PILLAGED THE CITY. As we indicated above
   we think the simplest way to take Rashi is that
   - the verse primarily refers to their actions in Schem
     That they destroyed a whole city

   - but to enrich our understanding of the verse Rashi
     gives comparable examples of violence from Shimon
     and Levi in the future.

------------------- LONGER FOOTNOTES ------------------------

*10 The word Samech-Dalet means SECRET can can be used
    to denote (Twisted) logic.
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