Rabbi Ishmael Example Method:#26 of 36 ########################################################### # 10 YEAR Ayelet DAILY-RASHI-YOMI CYCLE # # Sep 5, 2000 # # Rashis 250-252 Of 7800 (3.2%) # # # # Reprinted with permission from Rashi-is-Simple, # # (c) 1999-Present, Dr. Hendel # # http://www.RashiYomi.Com/ # # # #Permission to reprint with this header but not for profit# # # # WARNING: READ with COURIER 10 (Fixed width) FONTS # ########################################################### REFERENCE: ---------- Todays unit is extracted from Rashi is Simple volume 7 Number 4. To see this particular posting please visit http://www.RashiYomi.Com/dt06-06a.htm RABBI ISHMAEL'S 13 EXAMPLE RULES -------------------------------- Recall that we just showed that the principle of CLIMAX is really an example of the Rabbi Ishmael GENERAL-DETAIL style. This rule demands seeing details as examples which should be generalized. EXAMPLE: Dt25-04 Dont muzzle an OX while it is THRESHING RASHI: Dont muzzle ANY ANIMAL while it is WORKING We therefore spent 3 issues on Biblical examples which are generalized. We now spend 3 issues on Biblical examples that are specific and should not be generalized. We will then be able to summarize these 6 issues as well as all the examples on Climax into a set of rules which deal with how Biblical EXAMPLES should be treated. Along the way we will clarify and classify the many CLIMAX examples that we have done. In these 3 issues we deal with Biblical EXAMPLES which should be specific #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# (C) Dr Hendel, 2000 *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# VERSE: Lv01-02c Dt06-06a Gn02-08a EXAMPLES -------- (76) Lv01-02c If you offer sacrifices then offer them from the Animals--THAT IS, from Cattle and sheep RASHI: Thus the ONLY animals that can be offered for sacrifices are cattle and sheep (77) Dt06-06a You should love your Lord God (BY) placing the Torah on your heart and making sharp summaries RASHI: In other words the only way to love God is by placing the Torah on your heart and making sharp summaries *1 NOTES ----- *1 This Rashi (and the corresonding Rambam Foundations of Torah 2:1) are sometimes seen as homiletic and not the simple meaning of the text. But in reality they are the simple meaning of the text--for this paragraph has a GENERAL-PARTICULAR form: Love thy Lord thy God BY learning In other words the idea that God should be loved by learning is not a philosophical point of view but rather a GRAMMATICAL point of view---it follows from the form of this Chapter (Which we state every day in praying). (78) Gn02-08a Gn01-27 And God created Man Gn02-07:09 And God created man FROM earth and placed him in the Garden of Eden and placed their trees RASHI: It **looks** like there are two stories of creation The 1st creation in Gn01-27 and the 2nd creation in Gn02-07:09. Actually however, following Rabbi Eliezers (Son of Rabbi Yosi the Galileean) who had 32 styles by which to interpret the Bible we see Gn01-27 as a sort of HEADLINE that HYPERLINKS to Gn02-07 which gives the story in complete detail (How God made him--where he put him etc In my email list I compare the GENERAL-DETAIL method to a HEADLINE-STORY method. It is also a good pedagogic method akin to spiral curriculum #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# (C) Dr Hendel, 2000 *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#