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   ENGLISH RASHI:       http://www.mnemotrix.com/metsudah
   THE WHITE PAPERS:    http://www.RashiYomi.Com/white.htm
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GOALS
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This module studies Rashis treatment of classical grammar.
In other words how did Rashi treat the rules you find in
modern LEARN-HEBREW textbooks

TODAYS UNIT
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Rashi had a unique method of teaching Hebrew Grammar.
He used the method of NEAR MISSES. In the next few
days we present some examples and clarify this method

REFERENCE:
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Todays unit comes from the following postings

http://www.RashiYomi.Com/gn15-17e.htm
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RASHI TEACHES GRAMMAR BY NEAR MISSES


NOTATION: In todays posting: O<-->KAMATZ; A<-->PATACH

EXAMPLE 14: Gn46-26a 1st syllable accent=PAST;Last=PRESENT
EXAMPLE 15: Gn18-20b 1st syllable accent=PAST;Last=PRESENT
EXAMPLE 16: Gn15-17e 1st syllable accent=PAST;Last=PRESENT

BACKGROUND
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As is well known Hebrew Grammar rests on 3 letter roots. These
3 letter roots may be conjugated in various ways to obtain
various meanings. There are many books and many charts showing
these conjugations.

THE TEXT
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My favorite summary is the appendix to the IBN SHOSHAN
dictionary. Table 6 deals with 3 letter roots whose
middle letter is vav. BOTH the 3rd person PAST and PRESENT
are conjugated by using two KAMATZS under the non-vav root
letters but differ in the placement of accents.

THE RASHI
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By way of example consider the root Beth-Vav-Aleph (To Come)
- BO-oh (Accent on first syllable) means HE CAME (Past)
- bo-OH (Accent on last syllable) means HE IS COMING (Present)

THE LIST
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Rashi presents various examples of this grammatical rule As
indicated this is footnote 2 and 3 in the IBN SHOSHAN dictionary
VERSE TEXT OF VERSE WITH present OR past HEBREW*1
Gn46-26a All the people COMING with Jacob to Egypt ba-AH
Gn46-27 All the people WHO CAME with Jacob to Egypt BA-ah
Gn18-20b The sins of Sedom & Amorah WERE GREAT RAB-ah
Gn15-17e The sun HAD SET BA-ah
Gn29-06 Rachel is COMING ba-AH
Gn29-09 While they were speaking Rachel HAD COME BA-ah
Gn37-07 In my dream my stalk HAD ARISEN KA-mah
Ruth1-15 Behold your friend RETURNED to her nation SA-vah
COMMENTS
*1 Capped letters indicate the accented syllable.
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