*10 The explanation of the list should be clear
- The first column gives the NUMBER of the RASHI RULE used
All Rashi rules may be found with examples at
http://wwww.Rashiyomi.com/workbook.htm

- The second column gives the LIST ID (eg LIST210z) which
contains many examples of a particular Rashi technique and
includes the example presented in the third column

- The third column gives a lightning summary of the Rashi
with particular emphasis on the Rashi rule used.

*1 Particularly strong proofs come from verses which mention
opposite directions. For example we have
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Joel 2:20 Its start to the EAST SEA & its end to the WEST SEA
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or
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Job 23:8 I cant find God in the EAST or search for him in WEST
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The words for EAST and WEST in these 2 verses are FACE & BACK.
These contrasts lend credibility to our thesis*10

*10 The verses for these correspondences are presented by the
Radak in his book of roots.

*1  MQDM = FROM BEFORE = OUTSIDE ON EAST*11


*2 QDM + Tauv = QDMT means EAST OF (or EASTERLY).


*3 QDM MZRX(lit. EAST EAST) means EASTERNMOST. EASTERNMOST is
used for emphasis when one might think that something else is
more east. For example

- The 9.5 tribes inherited Israel. But 2.5 tribes inherited
EAST of the EAST of Israel in the Transjordan. Hence they
are EASTERNMOST

- There was a GATE ENTRANCE to the Sanctuary. I might think
that the GATE was EAST of the EASTERN part of the Sanctuary.
Therefore the Biblical text calls the EAST part of the
Sanctuary the EASTERNMOST part to emphasize that the door
was part of it.

*10 Rashi makes several other comments on this verse (Besides
the fact that QDM means EAST).

Rashi points out that Based on the OTHER VERSE, Gn03-24a,
Rashi shows that
- Adam, Kayins father, was expelled on the EAST of Eden.
- The Murder-Refuge cities were in the east.
Hence, Rashi concludes that, EXPULSIONS happened in the EAST

Here Rashi uses the DATABASE method. However in this posting
we are concentrating on the fact that BEFORE=QDM=EAST.

In passing the REASON why refuge cities are in the EAST is
because the sun rises in the east and hence the person
seeking refuge can flee immediately in the morning and not
be held up by darkness.


*11 We have seen several times in this email group that Rashi may
comment several times but only once indicate the general principle
On Gn03-24a Rashi explicitly identifies FROM EAST as meaning
OUTSIDE on the EAST

*12 Rashi cites an OTHER VERSE---Gn10-30 to prove that they
originally dwelled in the east and moved away from it.

*13 Rashi here is explaining the possible CONTRADICTION that
- he camped on the EAST of the City Bethel, but
- Bethel was on the WEST of Israel.

*14 - Abraham was in BethEl(On the West of Israel)
- But Israel is to the EAST of the Egypt.
So the verses point is that Lot journeyed OUTSIDE/AWAY from
the East of Israel.

Here too Rashi explains possible CONTRADICTIONS that
- Lot journey away from Abraham who was on the WEST of Israel
- Lot went further WEST
Hence he journeyed from the East.

Rashi points out that by separating from Israel and going towards
Egypt Lot separated from spirituality and veered toward Physicality

Rashi expresses this as a Hebrew pun--however the inference is
really logical (It is only the expression that is a pun). Rashis
real point is that Lot left Abrahams spiritual life and journeyed
to what the verse calls the Fertile valley--an emphasis on the
physical.