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ALL has 5 MEANINGS |
RASHI COVERED: Dt01-18a
VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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The word ALL has 4 usages
-- all PARTS
-- NO EXCEPTIONS
-- all SUBGROUPS
-- even BORDER LINE Cases
So when the Bible states (Dt01-18a) that MOSES COMMANDED
ALL THE JUDICIAL THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, Rashi explains
that this includes even BORDER LINE cases of the law like the 10
subtle differences between Monetary and Capital cases
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TODAYS RASHI RULE: SPECIAL WORDS
TODAYS RASHI SUBRULE: ALL
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BRIED DESCRIPTION OF RULE and SUBRULE
One of Rashis 6 main goals was to function like a dictionary
and present the meanings of words. Certain words like --
EVEN, ONLY, ALL, USUALLY, BECAUSE --- occur very frequently.
Rashis job was to give the primary usages of these words.
STANDARD EXAMPLE
Consider the word ALL. It has 4 primary usages
- ALL of Sedom gathered for the rape (ALL=NO EXCEPTIONS)
- Dont defile to ALL dead (ALL=All body PARTS)
- ALL Jewish people complained that night (ALL=EVEN leaders)
- ALL flesh corrupted (ALL GROUPS--people, animals, birds..)
Thus ALL can mean
-- NO EXCEPTIONS
-- ALL PARTS
-- EVEN BORDER LINE CASES (Like leaders in a nation)
-- ALL GROUPS (Even people, animals, birds)
The main references below give further elaboration.
STANDARD REFERENCES FOR THIS RULE
http://www.RashiYomi.com/all-18.htm
http://www.RashiYomi.com/calendar1.htm
The old Rashi yomi calendar: July 2000
TODAYS EXAMPLE
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We present below the list of verses where ALL means
EVEN BORDER line cases and include the new example.
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| VERSE |
TEXT WILL "ALL" |
INCLUDES EVEN THE FOLLOWING |
| Lv24-14a |
ALL hearing the Blasphemy |
Even the judges *1 |
| Nu14-01a |
The WHOLE nation rebelled |
EVEN the LEADERS *2 |
| Lv14-09a |
Cut ALL hair |
Even non-dense hair *3 |
| Ex12-43b |
ALL foreigners |
Even Jewish apostates *4 |
| Dt20-11a |
ALL conquered willbe yours |
EVEN from other nations *5 |
| Ex12-12b |
I'll smite all 1stborn |
Even from other nations *5 |
| Gn43-09b |
I'll owe you my WHOLE life |
EVEN in the next world |
| Dt13-01a |
Listen to ALL commandments |
EVEN the light ones |
| Dt01-18a |
Moses commanded ALL to do |
EVEN subtle details*6 |
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COMMENTS |
*1 ALL people (even judges who heard testimony) must stone
the blasphemer
*2 ALL people cried at hearing the spies story (Even the
leaders)
*3 Thru the GENERAL PARTICULAR GENERAL principle we learn
that only dense-visible hair (like eyebrows) has to
be shaved. This is learned by generalizing the examples
in the verse ("head", "beard", "eyebrows")
Thru the word "ALL" we learn that even non-dense or
non-visible hair (like armpit hair or outer-arm-hair)
should be shaved.
Thus the two items--GENERAL-PARTICULAR-GENERAL and ALL
teach us that ALL is shaved except NOSE-HAIR
*4 Neither foreigners nor Jewish Apostates can bring offerings
*5 Thus eg God smote the Firstborn of Egyptians and also the
firstborn of other nations who were visiting Egypt
*6 Rashi GIVES AN EXAMPLE: Moses even commanded the 10
differences between Monetary and Capital cases.
There is no reason to suppose that Rashi EXHAUSTED the
meaning of the verse in this interpretation. Rather,
it is the word ALL that motivated Rashi. We therefore
perceive Rashis literal remarks -- the 10 differences
between civil and Capital cases -- as being an EXAMPLE
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