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*1 The following verses are almost identical: Dt03-06

*2 Note the parallelism WORMS: vs POPULATION. Thus Isiah
   was addressing the POPULACE not the RESPECTABLES. He
   compares the exiles to WORMS roaming in dirt

*3 Literally from a CITY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE; this is therefore
   best translated as RURAL

*4 The whole verse says as follows
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   & you will remain a SMALL POPULACE instead of having been
   LIKE THE STARS
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   Thus the curse has 2 components
   - You will no longer be like STARS; you will be a POPULACE
   - You will not be MANY; you will be SMALL *10

*10 People ask me: If that is what the verse says why didnt
    Rashi say it. (Rashi says: SMALL REPLACING BIG). My
    response is that Rashi was responding to a fast reading
    of the verse. Such a fast first reading would leave the
    reader with the impression that YOU WILL NOT BE LIKE
    STARS BUT JUST BE A RURAL COUNTRY.

    Rashi then added that BESIDES this QUALITATIVE COMPONENT
    there is a QUANTITATIVE COMPONENT(SMALL vs BIG)

*1 As a general rule of thumb if the law begins WHEN YOU COME
   TO THE LAND then the law is not applicable in the wilderness
   For example the Jews observed the Passover of Egypt but
   did not observe Passover again in the wilderness. *10

*2 Note the contrast
   -- MOST verses begin:       When you come to the land
   -- Nu15-18a begins:         In coming to the land

   Rashi/Sifrah/Sifray, therefore concludes, that the two
   phrases must have distinct meanings.
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   - WHEN you come to the land  MEANS after conquest/inhabitance
   - IN coming to the land      MEANS after conquest *11
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*3 Rashi notes about the above list that
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   --in 7 verses it states WHEN YOU COME
   --in 2 verses it states WHEN YOU COME, CONQUER & INHABIT
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   We therefore use the Rabbi Ishmael LIST EXCEPTION RULE
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   - If you have a LIST of similar phrases (eg WHEN YOU COME)
   - and a few of them are different       (eg COME CONQUEST..)
   - then these few phrases dont just shed light on themselves
   - but rather they shed light on the WHOLE LIST
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   So every commandment in the list is only obligatory when
   you COME CONQUEST & INHABIT. See footnote *12 for more details

*10 However a few laws that begin WHEN YOU COME TO THE LAND
     are applicable even BEFORE the Jews came to the land.

   For example the witchcraft prohibitions (Dt18-09) state
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   WHEN you come to the land DO NOT LEARN to act like the
   residents. Do not use witchcraft THE WAY THEY DO; rather
   behave simply with Your God
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   Note the capped words THE WAY THEY DO:
   So we see that the reason that the prohibitions begin
   with the phrase WHEN YOU COME TO THE LAND is to
   indicate HOW the Jews differ from the Non-Jews.

   In fact, the Sifrah/Sifray states that
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   The reason the paragraph begins with WHEN YOU COME TO
   THE LAND is to indicate the REASON and MERIT by which
   the Jews will inherit the land -- namely, they will
   behave DIFFERENTLY then the non-jewish inhabitants
   which practice witchcraft
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   See Malbim who makes a similar point. The above
   explanation also applies to Dt07-01.

*11 We make 3 points
   First we have the following law:
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   After they conquered the land they were
   immediately obligated to separate challah
   even though they had not yet inhabited
   the land
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   Next we point out that the proof that WHEN YOU COME
   TO THE LAND refers to both CONQUEST and INHABITANCE
   will be presented in footnote #3.

   Finally we point out the nature of the logic:
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   -- WHEN you come    MEANS   AFTER conquest & inhabitance
   -- IN coming        MEANS   AFTER conquest
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   Rashi does NOT attach special meaning to WHEN vs IN. Rather
   Rashi simply assumes that IN COMING must have a DIFFERENT
   meaning to WHEN YOU COME. Since WHEN YOU COME means 2
   things (conquest/inhabitance) therefor IN COMING means
   just 1.

   (This is my approach. Malbim however suggests
   that IN COMING has special nuances of immediacy. THerefore
   they were immediately obligated when they came to the
   land. At the present writing I cannot find a list to
   support Malbim and hence I dont support him yet).

*12 Let me recap. In this case we
   - have a list (Commandments whose obligation start in Israel)
   - a few exceptions (when you come CONQUEST & INHABIT). Hence
   - These exceptions dont just apply to those particular verses
   - Rather they apply to the whole list. HENCE, all commandments
    in the LIST are only obligatory when we COME CONQUEST INHABIT

   Thus we have used a methodology of clarifying the meaning
   of MANY VERSES using SPECIFICITY in one verse.(That is,
   one verse says when YOU COME & INHABIT & CONQUER while
   the other verses say WHEN YOU COME)

   This method is developed in the following URL:
   http://www.RashiYomi.Com/lv09-07d.htm which provide
   examples of deriving meaning of non-specific
   phrases based on a ONE VERSE OCCURENCE WITH
   SPECIFICITY. Here are a few more examples
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   * EGEL means YOUNG COW;one verse says EGEL=1 YEAR
   * BLOOD ON HIM means death; 1 verses says it means STONING
   * CONFOUNDED means confusion;1 verse says it means BY NOISE
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   Thus in each case the SPECIFIC VERSE sheds light on the
   whole list of verses where this phrase occurs. So here
   too: THe verses that say CONQUEST & INHABIT shed light
   on the whole LIST.

   In passing both Rashi and the Sifrah/Sifray speak about ONE
   VERSE WHERE IT MENTIONS CONQUEST & INHABITANCE. Actually,
   there are TWO verses (Both listed above). It would appear
   to me that this is simply a generalization based on 2
   verses.

*1 The context of these verses is the spy incident. Recall
   that the spys maliciously slandered Israel and said that
   God could not bring us there. God then complained that every
   time he did a miracle for these people they ANGERED him.
   Finally God swore never to let these Jews see Israel. God
   continues: And any person WHO ANGERS me will not see it.*10

*10 Note that the context of these verses clearly shows that
    Nun-Aleph-Tzade means ANGER or some related emotion.

    In passing it would appear that Nun-Aleph-Tzade has a
    more intense meaning then Kuph-Ayin-Samech.

    We have presented 13 methods by which Rashi infers meaning
    in http://www.RashiYomi.Com/means-32.htm.

    Of these 13 methods Rashi could have used 2 to infer
    the meaning of NAATZ=ANGER
    -- THE PARALLEL FORM SENTENCE METHOD (see our analysis
       of Prv5-12 above; also see eg 1King19-03 or Isa37-03)

    -- THE VERSE-PROPERTY method (See our analysis of the
       verses in Numbers in footnote #1 above)

*1 Cf an identical usage in Ps58-09

*2 That is the REWARD is the END-OF whatever you are
   doing for work. (This explanation comes from RADACK,
   BOOK OF ROOTS)

*3 Cf An Identical usage in Ps105:36. *12

*4 The sentence
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   I suffered many (RV)
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   would mean that MANY tribulations came on me.

   But the actual verse which uses the construct(Ps120-6,Ps129-2)
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   I suffered MANY-OF(RABATH)
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   would refer to receiving MANY OF EACH tribulation

   An English analogy could be MAJOR STORM vs MANY STORMS
   Hence we have translated RABATH (Many-of) as MAJOR.

*5 Dry land includes both
   - fertile farm land
   - rocky supported land (on which you build buildings)

   This explains the use of YABESHET in Ex04-09. The water
   spilled by Moses became blood on the ROCKY-land (If it had
   become blood on FERTILE land we could say that liquids mixed
   with it making it red; thus the miracle was heightened)

*10 E.g. See the explicit statement by Ibn Ezra on Ps120-6

*11 Some of these translations are advocated by major
    commentators and are accepted. Some are controversial
    Some are my own. In general when I bring a list I try
    and let the reader form their own opinion. After
    reading the list the reader should ask if the GENERAL rule
    makes sense. Here is a recap of the list: Judge for yourself
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    CONSTRUCT PHRASE SUGGESTED NEW MEANING        SOURCE ACCEPTED
    ---------------- ---------------------------- ------ --------
    WOMAN-OF         WIFE                         Rashi  Clear
    END-OF           Wages                        Radack accepted
    BEGINNING OF     Choicest                     Disput deep
    DRY LAND OF      Rocky land (Driest OF lands) My own nice
    Many-of          Major                        My own nice
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*12 For a full explanation of Gn-01 see URL:
    http://www.RashiYomi.Com/gen-1.htm. There we show that
    Genesis 1 describes the creation of prophecy not the
    creation of the world: We therefore translate Genesis 1 as
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    For the sake of the Choicest qualities in man God created
    the spiritual and physical worlds. For the physical world
    had been chaotic and confusing, an emotional darkness over
    an unconscious jungle with the spirit of prophecy only
    hovering in the background. [THEREFORE, Because of the
    Choicest qualities in man] God said: LET THERE BE THE
    LIGHTS OF PROPHECY ..and the lights of prophecy existed
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