SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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Rashi will very often take a verse whose
meaning is ALREADY understood and ADD a consequence
to the verse.

In other words the
- WORDS and
- GRAMMAR
used by the verse are standard and understood.
- OTHER VERSES do not add further details to
the verses meaning.

If Rashi adds consequences or assumptions to
the verses meaning we call this the SPREADSHEET
method since SPREADSHEETS are very often
used to derive consequences from otherwise
understood data.

If the additional inferences are
- numerical, and can be depicted with a
SPREADSHEET of numbers we say Rashi is
using the ALGEBRAIC spreadsheet method
- diagramatic, we say Rashi is using the
GEOMETRIC spreadsheet method
- verbal-logical, we say Rashi is using
the CONSEQUENCE SPREADSHEET method.

EXAMPLE ISRAEL
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There are numerous verses where
- journey TO Israel is called GOING UP
- journey AWAY from Israel is called GOING DOWN
By itself this is simply a Hebrew idiomatic
usage. Rashi however infers an additional
GEOMETRIC consequence
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The Jewish perspective as indicated by
the Hebrew language is that Israel is
- at the CENTER
- and TOP
of Europe.
Other geographic references are made
from this TOP, FOCAL point.
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Rashi could find further support for this view
by using the OTHER VERSE method. Ez38-12 states
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To take booty, and to plunder;
to turn your hand upon the desolate
places that are now inhabited,
and upon the people who are gathered
from the nations, who have acquired cattle
and goods, who dwell ON THE BELLY OF THE LAND
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We now list 6 verses using the language
UP AND DOWN for going TO and AWAY from
Israel. Rashi makes an identical comment
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Israel is perceived at the TOP of the land
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in all of them.
One of them is about JERUSALEM/THE TEMPLE
In other words the TEMPLE & JERUSALEM are
at the TOP of Israel. ISRAEL is at the TOP
of the world. Here are the verses

- Verse Dt01-25a states
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And they took of the fruit of the land in their
hands, and brought it DOWN to us, and brought us
word again, and said, It is a good land which
the Lord our God does give us.
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- Verse Gn45-09a states
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Hurry back to my father, and say to him,
Thus said your son Joseph, God has made me
lord of all Egypt; come DOWN to me, delay not;
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- Verse Ex33-01a states
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And the Lord said to Moses, Depart, and go UP,
you and the people whom you have brought out
of the land of Egypt, to the land which I
swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
saying, To your seed will I give it;
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- Verse Dt32-13b states
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He drove us on the HIGH PLACES of the earth,
[ Israel ] so that we ate he ate the produce
of the fields; and he made him suck honey out
of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
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- Verse Gn46-03:04 states
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And He said, I am God, the God of your father;
fear not to go DOWN to Egypt; for I will there
make of you a great nation; I will go DOWN
with you to Egypt; and I will also surely
bring you UP again; and Joseph shall put
his hand upon your eyes.
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- Verse Dt17-08f states
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If there arises a matter too hard for you in
judgment, between blood and blood, between plea
and plea, and between plague and plague, being
matters of controversy inside your gates; then
shall you arise, and GO UP to the place which
the Lord your God shall choose;
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LIST691b summarizes the above SPREADSHEET and
offers further comments.

LIST690z below presents other Rashis using the SPREADSHEET
principle.

List of Rashis comments a)By CONSEQUENCE b)Computation,c)Diagram
LIST690z continues LIST690a

List of verses           with ISRAEL=TOP and CENTER

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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An advanced Rashi method is the use of symbolism to explain
Biblical chapters. The general guidelines for symbolic
interpretation are compactly presented in my essay GENESIS
ONE SPEAKS ABOUT THE CREATION OF PROPHECY NOT THE CREATION
OF THE WORLD which may be found at URL
http://www.Rashiyomi.com/gen-1.htm We call this the Rashi
method of SYMBOLISM / symbolism.

As pointed out in the above essay, Rav Hirsch emphasized
that one cannot whimsically apply symbolic methods. Rather
the Biblical text must demand or require the use of symbolism.

EXAMPLE Dt01-44a
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Military activity is often vigorously described
using animal metaphors. Here we use the symbolism
principle that items can symbolize their function.
Examples are plentiful

- Nu24-09 states He couched, he lay down as a LION,
and as a great LION. Who shall stir him up?
Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.

- Jr05-06 states Therefore a LION from the forest
shall slay them, and a WOLF of the deserts shall
destroy them, a LEOPARD shall watch over their cities;
every one who goes out there shall be torn in pieces;
because their transgressions are many, and their
apostasies are great.

- Jr46-12 states Her sound is like that of a
SERPENT on the move; for they shall march with
force, and come against her with axes, like wood cutters.

- Dt01-44a states And the Amorites,
who lived in that mountain,
came out against you, and chased you,
as BEES do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

The interpreter's task is to identify the
unique military characteristics of each animal.
Rashi commenting on the last verse Dt01-44a
states
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The military characteristic of the BEE is the
swiftness of conquest without exertion of power.
That is a BEE kills thru an instantaneous sting
with venom, not by the type of power and interactive
fight shown by a LION.
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LIST975v summarizes this argument

List of                  Military animal symbols

SUCCINT SUMMARY:
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One of Rashi's 10 major goals is the explanation of GRAMMAR
the same way modern textbooks explain GRAMMAR. There are three
major GRAMMAR submethods:

(a) The goal of the ROOT submethod is to explain all
conjugations and meanings of Biblical roots.
Biblical roots are conjugated with letter prefixes and suffixes
to indicate (i) tense (ii) person (iii) gender (iv) plurality
(v) mode (vi) object (to whom the activity is done) and (vii)
mood. Each of these conjugations has a specific meaning.
Furthermore, these conjugations take on different forms for
roots with weak letters.

(b) The SENTENCE submethod deals with grammatical attributes
of sentences such as (i) word arrangement (Verb Subject vs
Subject Verb) (ii) sentence type  (interrogative, command)
(iii) compound sentences (iv) apposition and (v)
paragraph / sentence development.

(c) The MISCELLANEOUS grammatical methods deal with
(i) agreement (in gender and plurality), (ii) the construct
(iii) pronoun reference (iv) ellipsis (v) noun-verb transforms
(e.g. to dust) (vi) special word usage(e.g. how to use
numbers) (vii) suffix-prefixes (e.g. terminal HEY means
towards).

Today we explain a multiple use of ROOT CONJUGATIONS--
the INFINITIVE FORM can denote
- the INFINITIVE
- ONGOING activity (The same nuances as an English GERUND)

Most languages have grammatical forms indicating ongoing activity
For example the word RUNNING in the sentence I TRIPPED WHILE
RUNNING indicates, not RUNNING at one point of time, but rather
ONGOING RUNNING over a period of time.

In English this ongoing activity is indicated by the ING of
the Gerund form. In Hebrew, according to Rashi, the INFINITIVE
is used to indicate ONGOING activity.

EXAMPLE Dt01-16a
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Dt01-16 states
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And I (Moses) commanded your judges at this time
as follows: Be INVOLVED IN LISTENING between
your brother and [thereby] judge justly between
a person his brother or a sojourner
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Rashi translates the Hebrew infinitive form
of the root TO LISTEN as meaning BE INVOLVED
IN LISTENING. Hence the Rashi comment
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Moses told them to be PATIENT in judging
cases
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
If you have seen a case a few times don't
judge the next one quickly but rather
BE INVOLVED IN LISTENING to the case
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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LIST080c summarizes the above list It also provides much
needed detail

List of verses with      INFINITIVE meaning ONGOING ACTIVITY

Lighting summary of Rashis with emphasis on Rashi rules*10