The 8 methods of naming items:#2 of 8
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GOALS:
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I decided its time for a longer unit.

This unit which is a bit longer than the others focuses on a
major Rashi task--explaining the MEANINGS OF WORDS. EXPLAINING
MEANING is more than looking something up in a dictionary.
There are METHODS to explaining WORDS. In this module we will
explore HOW Rashi determines meaning --WHAT are Rashis methods.


TODAYS UNIT
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As I was about to close out this series I notice a beautiful
posting of mine whose URL is listed below with several dozen
punchy Rashis. These Rashis deal with HOW objects are named
and list 8 methods.


REFERENCE:
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This module comes from the following reference in the
Rashi-is-Simple series.

http://www.RashiYomi.Com/ex25-31a.htm


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BACKGROUND
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 You can name an object by any of 8 attributes of the
 the object. For example you can name an object by how
 it looks, their form, (e.g. PENTAGON refers to the FORM
 of the building) or you can name an object by its PURPOSE
 and FUNCTION (e.g. the UNITED NATIONS refers to the GOAL
 of the buiding -- to UNITE the world) These 8 methods are
 listed in footnote *1.

 In the next few days we review examples of objects named
 by their form.

EXAMPLES
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The following Candellabrah parts were named by their FORM--
what they looked like
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EXAMPLE 84: Ex25-31f A BUD is called an ELONGATED CUP

EXAMPLE 85: Ex25-31h The FLOWER ornament in the Candellabrah
                is so called because it has the FORM of a
                FLOWER

EXAMPLE 86: Ex25-31g The word CAFTOR means FRUIT
            The CAFTOR part of the Candellabrah was a
            Candellabrah Ornament that looks like FRUIT*2 *3




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=========== HOW OBJECTS ARE NAMED ========================

*1
 You can name an object by any of 8 attributes of the
 the object. For example you can name an object by how
 it looks, their form, (e.g. PENTAGON refers to the FORM
 of the building) or you can name an object by its PURPOSE
 and FUNCTION (e.g. the UNITED NATIONS)

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FOCUS ON OBJECTS'       EXAMPLE
======================  ==================================
FUNCTION                United nations
SUBSTANCE               PLASTER
CAUSE                   Sunset
FEELS                   HARDship
FORM                    Pentagon
EXAGGERATION            SkyScraper
A GOOD EXAMPLE          HONEY can mean anything SWEET
ACTIVITY-FORM           SURFing the web
==========================================================

*2 The other meaning of CAFTOR refers to the TOP OF THE DOORPOST
   As RADACK and others explain the TOP OF DOORPOSTS was called
   THE FRUIT because they use to decorate the tops of doorposts
   with fruit (See RADACK: Book Of ROOTS: He cites references
   in Amos9:1 and Zefaniah02:14)

*3 I have explained that the FRUIT part of the Candellabrah was
   a Candellabrah ornament that looked like a FRUIT. But I still
   havent explained how I know that CAFTOR means FRUIT.

   The simplest derivation would be one of CONTEXT FROM THE VERSE
   The verse speaks about CANDELLABRAH ornaments that are
   --ELONGATED CUPS = BUDS
   --CAFTORS
   --FLOWERS        = LOOKS LIKE FLOWERS
   Thus the CONTEXT of the verse justifies the plant trilogy
   of BUD, FRUIT and FLOWER from which we infer that a CAFTOR
   is a FRUIT. (I then assert that the Candellabrah CAFTOR
   was an ornament that had the FORM of FRUIT and that doorposts
   are called THE FRUIT because of their decorations).

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