*1 The emotions of love resemble WATER more than land.

*2 Trees afford privacy for love-making and are well
known erection symbols.

*3 Fields provide soft "beds"; a zephyred field
resembles the pulsations of love-making

*4 see http://www.Rashiyomi.com/#list309d. The ALIGNMNET
of the 9 Kings mentioned in Gn14-01:02 emphasizes
that KING YOUTH reigned over the DEVOUR land; people
died YOUNG because they were involved in excessive
love-making.*10

*5 Note the repeated LIKE in the text of the verse.
This creates a BULLET like affect. The BULLETS
emphasize each distinctive phrase. Hence
- The Garden of Eden was known for its trees
(Cf Gn02-08:15)
- Egypt was known for its field produce
(Cf Ex09-31:32)

*10 The CLIMAX is unmistakable. It was a land
encouraging love-making and the activities
of YOUTH (Rashi accuses Lot of wanting this
land for the opportunities of love-making).

In passing those who have taken advanced art
courses know that the typical BACKGROUND to
a love scene is precisely that indicated by
Gn13-10: RIVERS-TREES-FIELDS-YOUTH.

*1 The NAME of the KING
- for the last row is in column 3
- for the other rows is in column 1
(Rashi Gn14-02e)*10

*2 The title King is
- for the last row in Column 1
- for the other rows in Column 2

*3 The Country name is
- for the last row in column 2
- for the other rows in column 3

*1 The NAME of the KING
- for the last row is in column 3
- for the other rows is in column 1
(Rashi Gn14-02e)

*2 The title King is
- for the last row in Column 1
- for the other rows in Column 2

*3 The Country name is
- for the last row in column 2
- for the other rows in column 3

*10 Rashi uncharacteristically does not give
a reason for these differences. He rather
notes them. But reviewing the meaning of
the names of the KING and COUNTRY
- BELA means to DEVOUR
- TZOAR means YOUNG

If the Biblical verse reverses itself
and places the name of the country first
perhaps there is an emphasis
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The King of the Country DEVOUR, which
DEVOURed its inhabitants with sickness,
had the name YOUNG for all inhabitants
of that country died YOUNG (Perhaps
that is why they were willing to fight--
they expected to die and had nothing to
live for)
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*1 In list http://www.Rashiyomi.com/h27n22.htm#LIST309e
we have already established that PLACE of SCHEM
refers to the HOLY place of Schem. Rashi further
explains that Abraham prayed there (Because he was
a prophet) that the Jews should be victorious in
avenging the rape of Dinah.

The above derivation comes from ALIGNMENT which
places an emphasis on the word PLACE.

But now we can apply the FORMATTING rule.
Each clause in the above paragraph lists one
place where Abraham journeyed. If one of these
clauses speaks about the Prayers that Abraham
offered thru prophecy then according to the
FORMATTING rule we are justified in seeing
all the phrases as speaking about the
prayers that Abraham offered based on
prophecy. Hence the Rashi
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Rashi prayed there concerning the
sin of Achan which happened in that
place (See Jo07)
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*1 Radack translates PLACE as GOD. But a closer
examination of the texts shows that PLACE
means the HOLY PLACE, THE TEMPLE (Where of course
one frequently prays). See the the other footnotes

*2 The translation of PLACE as the HOLY TEMPLE makes
sense and fits in here.

*3 The interpretation here of PLACE as meaning HOLY PLACE
vs ORDINARY PLACE is because of the repeated word
PLACE. REPETITION encourages rare interpretations.
See http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gn47-02a.htm Note that
Jacob had passed by the mountain where Isaac his
father was Akaydahed---consequently this place was
HOLY.

*4 Rashi states HE PRAYED THERE. We do not differ from
Rashi however we point out that BECAUSE the verse
emphasizes that Abraham came to the HOLY Schem,
there is an emphasis on the HOLY war faught there
to avenge the rape of Dinah--it then makes sense
(as an AFTERTHOUGHT) that he prayed there. The
main emphasis is that Abraham stopped in Schem
because he prophetically new of the HOLY WAR
that would take place there.

*10 Radack seems to be an "orphan" among Rishonim. Yeshiva
students get excited about other Rishonim--a sharp
Rambam, an innovative Tosafoth, a clear RAN--but who
even cares about the Radack.

This is wrong. An affectionate play on his name states
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All need the owner of WHEAT(Radacks last name was WHEAT)
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We owe to Radack the observation that the Midrashic
identification of PLACE and HOLINESS was not a
homiletic accident but rather one of the SIMPLE
MEANINGS of the text. The citation in Esther comes
directly from him

It is ironic that without this Radack Rashi and all
the Talmudic sages appear to be making homilys and
wild-out Midrashim. It is the Radack who exposes
these midrashim as the simple meaning of the text.

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Praise be Him who Chose Them and Their Learning!
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*1 Thus "whoever see the humiliating Adulterous wife rite"
will be so shocked that he will abstain from wine

Similarly "Judah advised his brothers to sell Joseph"
and so when they regretted it they blaimed him and he
had to "separate from them."

Similarly "Sarah died" from the shock that "Abraham
offered Isaac."

*2 In other words because the snake saw Adam and Eve naked
therefore he became Jealous and wanted Adam killed so
he could marry Eve.

ALthough this sounds a bit wild there is strong supporting
evidence. Gn04-01 uses the past perfect form
And Adam HAD BEEN FAMILIAR with his wife & they had
a child"
So the sequence of chapters is
Adam was lonely
God makes Eve
Adam and Eve are naked
------------------------"Snake tempts Eve"
Adam has a child with Eve
Thus the sequence of chapters (Naked--->child) is
clearly interrupted by the Snake story.

*3 As explained above Rashi sees these two views as
complementary
- First they drank wine and got drunk
- While drunk they thought it permissable to offer
sacrifices which should not be offered
Hence they died for both crimes

*4 Rashi explains the Causal connection
- when the masses see that God EVEN kills the righteous
for sins
- then they are aware how they must also observe
Gods commandments
- This leads to more honor for God

*5 So GOOD NEWS facilitates/causes SMOOTH TRAVEL(Rashi)

*6 The full sequence of chapters is as follows
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- Gn31 God orders Jacob to return to his fathers house
- Gn32 But Jacob is afraid of Being with Brother Esauv
- Gn33 Jacob journeys instead to Succoth
- Gn34 Dinah gets raped
- Gn35 God tells Jacob to return to BethEl
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Rashi notes that
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If Jacob had IMMEDIATELY fulfilled the order
of Travelling to his fathers house he
wouldnt have stayed in Succoth and his
Daughter would not have gotten raped.
------------------------------

Thus Rashi sees a CAUSAL connection
between the chapters. Dinah was raped
because Jacob did not IMMEDIATELY fulfill
the prophetic order.

Note Rashi expresses the same theme
-------------------------------------------------
Because he delayed doing the prophecy immediately
therefore he was punished that certain bad
occurrences happened to him
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Rashi expresses this same theme on Gn35-22a
where we find that Reuven inteferred with his
fathers marital life.

*7 Rashi can be better understood with the EXPORT-IMPORT LAW
of logic. The EXPORT-IMPORT law states that
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IF [it rains] then if [I go out] THEN [I will get wet]
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has the same meaning as
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IF [it rains] and [I go out] THEN [I will get wet]
----------------------------------------------------

In other words Rashi identifies the two sentence forms
- IF p THEN IF q THEN r
- IF p & q THEN r
This identification of NESTED CONDITIONALS with a
CONJUNCTIVE HYPOTHESIS is called the EXPORT-IMPORT law.

The actual Biblical text reads
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The cattle is young
AND they will be pushed one day
AND they will die
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Rashi simply points out (Using EXPORT-IMPORT) that
we can interpret this as either
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[IF] The cattle is young
AND they will be pushed one day
THEN they will die
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or
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IF The cattle is young
IF they will be pushed one day
THEN they will die
---------------------------------------------

The above two translations use the well known Biblical
principle that the Hebrew letter VAV can refer to
any connective.

*8 In other words he
- 1st affirmed a vow of his wife
- then annuled it (which he had no right to)
- If she now sins (Because she was mislead into thinking
the vow is annuled)
- then HE bears the sin/punishment
In other words BECAUSE he misled her he must pay for
the sin.

*9 The causality of these verses reinforce each other
- Gn13-14 EXPLICITLY states that God promised Abe
Israel AFTER Lot separated from him

- Gn13-07 states that Abe and Lot faught WHILE
the Canaanites were still in the land.

So Rashi simply puts the two verses together
- Lot felt HE COULD USE ISRAEL land even though the
CANAANITES still owned it. Lot felt this way because
the land was promised to Abraham eventually. By contrast
Abraham refused to use the land UNTIL it was actually
given to him.

*10 Rashi also states
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The HEAVY DRIVING (that God made the Egyptians do
by removing chariot wheel) was a punishment for
their making HEAVY their hearts
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I would strengthen these associations
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The HEAVY DRIVING is a punishment for the HEAVY
work that the Egyptians placed on the Jews
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These comments of Rashi or me also indicate
-- HEAVY DRIVING causes/facilitated
-- Egyptians seeing that God was fighting for them

Indeed: We know that one of the way God fights
is to punish people according to what they have done
(See Rashi on Ex18-11- Jethro said: Now I know that
God is the true God because He returns to people
what they have done)

Hence this particular punishment (making the
Egyptians drive heavy vs killing them) showed
the Egyptians (CAUSED them to be aware) that
God was fighting.

*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.

All lists may be found at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/lists.htm