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VERSE: Dt07-12a
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(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03 | ||
SUCCINCT SUMMARY ---------------- Dt06-20:25 and Dt07-01:10 ask the Jews to do several commandments - teach their children - dont do favors to idolaters - destroy their idols - Have faith in God - No intermarriage These are DETAILED laws. The chapter concludes with a GENERAL COMMENT -if you observe THESE laws God will watch you Clearly, the phrase THESE LAWS refers to the preceding commandments. Rashi further explains that people tend to act like these commandments are general guidelines on which we dont have to work(eg faith, no favors to idolaters etc). Therefore the Torah emphasizes we should be especially careful about them.*10 | ||
| ITEM | DETAIL | |
| RASHI RULE CLASS: | RABBI ISHMAEL STYLE | |
| RASHI SUBRULE CLASS | GENERALIZED | |
| RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE | #25 | |
| SEE BELOW | LIST450d | |
| Detail Climax method in | Dt06-20:25, Dt07-01:09 | |
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*10 Traditionally Rashi is understood as making a pun on the Hebrew word Ayin-Kuf-Beth which can simultaneously mean CONSEQUENCE or SIDE ISSUES. So when the verse says that AS A CONSEQUENCE OF OBSERVING THESE LAWS GOD WILL WATCH YOU Rashi claims the verse to mean WHEN YOU OBSERVE THESE COMMANDMENTS WHICH PEOPLE CONSIDER SIDE ISSUES GOD WILL WATCH YOU But that does NOT mean that Rashi was deriving his inference from the PUN - CONSEQUENCE---SIDE-ISSUE. Rather Rashi was being broad and deep; He derived the comment from the overall paragraph structure (DETAIL - GENERAL). He then summarized the comment in the form of a PUN. | ||
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(C) Dr Hendel, Jan-03 | ||
The DETAIL-GENERAL form of Dt06-20:25 and Dt07-01:12. The Torah lists a collection of laws and then advises us that if we observe these laws God will protect us. The overall paragraph structure clearly identifies that the concluding sentence OBSERVE THESE LAWS refers to the PRECEDING LIST OF LAWS | ||
| VERSE | Commandment involved - Text of Verse | |
| Dt06-20:25 | educate children | |
| Dt07-02 | avoid idolaters | |
| Dt07-02 | dont do them favors | |
| Dt07-03 | no intermarriage | |
| Dt07-05 | destroy all their idolatry | |
| Dt07-09 | Know God | |
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| Dt07-11:12 | If you watch these laws God protects | |
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*10 Traditionally Rashi is understood as making a pun on the Hebrew word Ayin-Kuf-Beth which can simultaneously mean CONSEQUENCE or SIDE ISSUES. So when the verse says that AS A CONSEQUENCE OF OBSERVING THESE LAWS GOD WILL WATCH YOU Rashi claims the verse to mean WHEN YOU OBSERVE THESE COMMANDMENTS WHICH PEOPLE CONSIDER SIDE ISSUES. But that does NOT mean that Rashi was deriving his inference from the PUN - CONSEQUENCE---SIDE-ISSUE. Rather Rashi was being broad and deep; He derived the comment from the overall paragraph structure (DETAIL - GENERAL). He then summarized the comment in the form of a PUN. As one peruses the list of Mitzvoth one finds that most of these commandments (all except the prohibition against intermarriage) refer to general guidelines -- faith, not praising idolaters, -- which most people do not devote alot of time to. Hence Rashis observations that people treat these commandments LIGHTLY (Nobody treats FAITH lightly but rather people dont spend time and money on FAITH the way they spend time and money on purchasing Tefillin). In other words we are INTERPRETING LIGHTLY to refer to the AMOUNT OF WORK done for the commandment not to its importance. I think the above represents an alternative way of looking at Rashi | ||