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VERSE: Gn30-27a
RASHIS COVERED: Gn30-27a Gn44-15a Nu23-23a Nu24-01c Dt18-10d
               Ex13-05c Ex12-05c
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SUCCINCT SUMMARY
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One of Rashis 6 main goals is to explain the meaning
of words the same way the dictionary explains meaning.
Rashi had a variety of vehicles to explain meaning.

A famous punchy method of describing items is using
PERSONIFICATION -- that is the activity or attribute
is named by a person or animal that is distinguished
in that regard.

PERSONIFICATION itself is part of a general trend
of language to identify the whole with its parts
This is called SYNECDOCHE(Whole and parts).

EXAMPLES OF SYNECDOCHE
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- HONEY means anything SWEET
- BREAD means any FOOD
- LAMB means any DOCILE YOUNG creature (LAMB,GOAT)
- LAND FLOWING WITH MILK OF HONEY means
- PRODUCE OF LAND FLOWS WITH MILK AND HONEY
- (GOATS of land produce milk; etc)

EXAMPLES OF PERSONIFICATION
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Hence we have
- LION meaning COURAGEOUS,
- PIG meaning glutonous etc.

Today we explore SNAKE

- SNAKE=JUMPY (Cf English JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS)
Hence the Talmud interprets DONT SNAKE as DONT
JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS (eg a cat crossed my path
and hence I will have a bad day)

Snake can refer to SUPERSTITIONS, JUMPING TO
CONCLUSIONS or to COINCIDENCES
ITEM DETAIL
RASHI RULE CLASS: WORD MEANINGS
RASHI SUBRULE CLASS 8 METHODS OF NAMING
RASHI WORKBOOK PRINCIPLE #7
SEE BELOW LIST817a
List of words Named by GOOD EXAMPLE
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SEE BELOW LIST817b
List of verses where TO SNAKE=TO JUMP to conclusions
LIST817a
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Words / Meanings illustrating the GOOD EXAMPLE
technique. Thus BREAD refers to BREAD. But because
BREAD is a GOOD EXAMPLE of a food, therefore BREAD
can refer to ANY FOOD. (The technical term for
this is SYNECDOCHE (part names the whole))
# WORD STRICT BROAD MEANING
(101) Day 12 hour 24 hour period
(102) Bread Bread Any Food
(103) Man (ISH) Male Any person
(104) E-L-H-I-M God Any Judge
(105) IN IN AMONG
Ex12-05c Land The Land Inhabitants of land*1
Ex13-05c Lamb Lamb Lamb or Goats*2
Dt18-10d SNAKE SNAKE Jumping to conclusions*3
COMMENTS
*1 So the famous phrase
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A LAND flowing with milk and sweet juices
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really means
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A LAND WHOSE INHABITANTS (Goats for milk
and Fruit trees for sweet juices) flows
with milk and honey
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*2 Rashi brings support for his contention that
LAMB can SYNECDOCHICALLY mean any docile
young creature (the same way BREAD means FOOD etc)
See Dt14-04 -- A GOAT LAMB

*3 See LIST817b for examples. For the while we
point out that because of the snakes characteristic
motion (JUMPING out at a prey) TO SNAKE
came to mean TO JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS (As in
the English Metaphor).

Hence the Rabbis interpret the prohibition of
SNAKING as a prohibition of JUMPING TO
CONCLUSIONS (eg a Snake crossed my path
hence I will have bad luck)
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