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RASHI COVERED: Dt13-19a CRAWLING BIRDS=INSECTS VERY BRIEF SUMMARY: ------------------- One of Rashis 6 main goals is the explanation of word meaning similar to a dictionary. There are however many ways in which to explain meaning. Sometimes Rashi simply explains the meaning of an unknown WORD. Sometimes however Rashi will explain the meaning of a PHRASE. Each word in the phrase may have a clear meaning while the phrase as a whole has a NEW MEANING not related to its words. Dt13-19a gives an example: The literal text is CRAWLING BIRDS Rashi translates this as INSECTS ----------------------------------------------- TODAYS RASHI RULE: WORD MEANING TODAYS RASHI SUBRULE: PHRASE MEANING ----------------------------------------------- STANDARD REFERENCES ------------------- The RashiYomi dictionary page:http://www.RashiYomi.com/words.htm STANDARD EXAMPLE In Gn21-12a God tells Abraham --Hear the voice of Sarah in all she tells you STANDARD EXERCISES -- What does the capped phrase HEAR THE VOICE mean -- Can you find other verses with this usage RASHIS SOLUTION - RASHI: HEAR THE VOICE means OBEY - There are numerous other verses with this usage as in Dt08-20 Dt15-05. For a possible counterexample examine Nu21-03 HOW TO USE THESE LISTS FOR (HOME) SCHOOLING PROJECTS You can use the lists below for school projects. Here is how. You can present the LITERAL BIBLICAL TEXT in the lists below to students and ask them to do 2 exercises -- Let them try and guess from context what the phrase means -- using a Konkordance or search engine let them try & find other examples (or counterexamples) The students solution can then be compared with Rashis. This leads to greater appreciation of Rashi. TODAYS LIST The list below contains a dozen or so Rashis that give the meaning of a phrase. The literal Biblical text and the New meaning are both presented. Footnotes provide other Rashis which state the same thing as well as give further clarifications. The verse can be used to look up the posting on the Rashi website. E.g. The Rashi on Dt13-19a is found at http://www.RashiYomi.com/dt13-19a.htm (Lower case) | ||
| VERSE | LITERAL TEXT | NEW MEANING OF PHRASE |
| Dt13-19a | Crawling Birds | Insects |
| Dt05-07a | On the face of | During the lifetime *1 |
| Gn17-17a | Fall on face | Movement frozen *2 |
| Gn18-05a | Found your heart | Eat a good meal |
| Gn18-05c | Because on this | (Social) Cause *3 |
| Gn18-22b | Stand before God | Prophecy |
| Gn21-12a | Hear her voice | Obey her |
| Gn22-05a | Until Thus | Until a prophecy*4 |
| Gn47-18c | Dont..except | Affirmation *5 |
| Gn47-29a | I-m near to die | Premature death |
| Gn47-30a | Lie with fathers | Death |
| Ex21-29a | yesterday&3 days | habitually |
| Gn50-21a | speak on heart | speak soothingly |
| Gn47-29a | true & kind | non-reciprocated favor |
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*1 Nu03-04a Gn11-28a Ex20-03c Dt05-07a *2 So FALL ON FACE refers either to - AWE (As in a prophetic experience) - Depression See also Gn17-03a Nu16-04a Nu24-04a *3 See also Gn18-05d. To clarify this - if I strike a match I PHYSICALLY cause a fire - a birthday SOCIALLY causes a party *4 See also Ex07-16a. This Rashi appears wild--but surprisingly UNTIL THUS only occurs 5 times in the Bible And it always refers to waiting till a prophecy happens!! See the posting for the juicy details *5 Gn47-18c Gn43-03b In English we also have the double negative In Biblical Hebrew the double negative denotes an emphasisof NO EXCEPTIONS | ||