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VERSE: Lv22-15a

============================= Lv22-15a =========================

SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 10 main methods is the GRAMMAR method where Rashi
explains GRAMMAR the same way GRAMMAR books do. A major
submethod of the GRAMMAR method is explain connections between
consecutive sentences and consecutive paragraphs. We call this
the method of CONSECUTIVE CHAPTERS.

EXAMPLE Lv22-15a
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   The last few verselets in the Biblical paragraph
   Lv22-10:16 state
   ---------------------------------------------
   Strangers                    dont eat  Terumah
   A man who eats by accident   Pay 1/5 fine

   DONT DESCECRATE*6            the Holies
                                TERUMAH to God
   ----------------------------------------------

   Here Rashi sees the verselet DONT DESCECRATE
   THE HOLIES, THE TERUMAH OF GOD as the EFFECT
   of the previous verselets: STRANGERS SHOULDNT
   EAT TERUMAH AND THOSE WHO EAT BY ACCIDENT MUST
   PAY 1/5 FINE.

   In other words Rashi here uses the Rashi rules of
   CONSECUTIVE CHAPTERS. By
   seeing these sentences connected as CAUSE-EFFECT
   we thereby identify the meaning of the phrase
   DONT DESCECRATE as indicating the consequence
   (EFFECT) of letting strangers eat Terumah.
   LIST061a below brings other examples where consecutive
   sentences illustrate a CAUSE-EFFECT theme.

LIST061a below presents other verselet pairs unified
by CAUSE-EFFECT
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ITEM                     DETAIL
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RASHI RULE CLASS:        GRAMMAR
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS:     CONSECUTIVE CHAPTERS
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #9
SEE BELOW                LIST061a
A list of paragraphs     having a CAUSAL connection
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================= LIST061a ================================
A list of paragraphs     having CAUSAL connection
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VERSE    TOPIC IN 1st CHAPTER  TOPIC IN 2nd CHAPTER
======== ===================== ============================
Ex14-25a Remove wheel          Heavy driving--God fights
Ex14-25b Heavy Driving         God fights*10
Ex13-17b Avoid NEAR-ROUTE      Nearness facilitates return
Gn35-01a Dinah is raped        Prophetic order to leave*6
Gn33-13c Young Sheep           IF pushed they will die*7
Gn29-01a God WITH Jacob        Jacob travelled SMOOTHLY*5
Nu06-02a Adulterous wife rite  Nazaarite from wine*1
Gn38-01a Brothers sell Joseph  Judah leaves brothers*1
Gn23-03c Abraham offers Isaac  Sarah dies*1
Gn02-20a Adam Eve are Naked    Snake gives Eve Apple*2
Lv10-02a Non-allowed sac       Death of Aarons sons*3
Lv10-02a Death of Aarons sons  No wine to serving priest*3
Lv10-03d Death of Righteous    God honored*4
Lv22-15a Dont eat Terumah      Dont DESCECRATE holies

NOTES
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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
   --------------------------------------------
   - 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
   -------------------------------------------

   Rashi notes that
   -----------------------------
   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
   -------------------------------------------------

   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
   ----------------------------------------------------
   IF [it rains] then if [I go out] THEN [I will get wet]
   ----------------------------------------------------

   has the same meaning as
   ----------------------------------------------------
   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
   ---------------------------------------------
   The cattle is young
   AND they will be pushed one day
   AND they will die
   ---------------------------------------------

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

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

*10 Rashi also states
    --------------------------------------------------
    The HEAVY DRIVING (that God made the Egyptians do
    by removing chariot wheel) was a punishment for
    their making HEAVY their hearts
    --------------------------------------------------

    I would strengthen these associations
    --------------------------------------------------
    The HEAVY DRIVING is a punishment for the HEAVY
    work that the Egyptians placed on the Jews
    --------------------------------------------------

    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.
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