Rabbi Ishmael Example Method:#27 of 36 ########################################################### # 10 YEAR Ayelet DAILY-RASHI-YOMI CYCLE # # Sep 6, 2000 # # Rashis 253-255 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: Gn02-08a---Repeated from yesterday Gn09-11a Nu03-06a Nu05-12d EXAMPLES ---------- (78) Gn02-08a----------------------------FROM YESTERDAY 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. One main point here is that there are not 2 creations stories but one creation story that has a HEADLINE and DETAILS (79) Gn09-11a I will fulfill my CONVENANT with Noach (BY) placing the rainbow in the clouds as a symbol that I will not destroy the world RASHI: Thus the only terms of the convenant is that God will not destroy the world (In other words the Biblical phrase "I will fulfill my convenant" is like a HEADLINE while the Biblical phrase "I will place the rainbow" is the DETAILS) (80) Nu03-06a & The Levites will SERVE Aaron: (BY) Watching the Temple RASHI: Thus the only service that the levites must do is Watch the temple (In other words the Biblical phrase "...SERVE AARON " is like a HEADLINE while the Biblical phrase " WATCH THE TEMPLE " is the DETAILS) (81) Nu05-12d & She DESECRATES her marriage: (BY) Sleeping with another man RASHI: In other words it is only for SLEEPING with another man that we perform the 'suspected- wife' ceremony mentioned in Nu05 (Eg if she desecrated her marriage in some other way by eg insulting her husband we do not perform the ceremony) (In other words the Biblical phrase " she desecrates her marriage" is like a HEADLINE while the Biblical phrase "..she sleeps with another man.." are the DETAILS Still another point of view is that "She desecrates her marriage" is a GENERAL statement which **could** have many details such as sleeping around, insulting, embarassing, taking money. The Bible then limits this GENERAL statement of DESECRATING the marriage, only to the DETAILS of SLEEPING with another man) #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# (C) Dr Hendel, 2000 *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#