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AND YOU indicates PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE |
EXAMPLE: Ex28-01a Making of garments occurs AFTER making temple
EXAMPLE: Ex28-03a Robing in garments consecrates priests
EXAMPLE: Ex28-05a Artisans collect gold etc to make garments
BACKGROUND
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One of Rashis main goals is to describe how the Bible implemented
such modern typographical features as BOLD, BULLETS, PARAGRAPHS
REFERENCE
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The 6 Rashi goals occur at
http://www.RashiYomi.Com/rules-01.htm
THE TEXT
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Ex27 and Ex28 describe a variety of activities. The phrase
AND YOU occurs at the beginning of 3 verses 3 in this
Parshah.
THE RASHI
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Rashi cleverly identifies these 3
AND YOUS as PARAGRAPH BEGINNINGS (In Modern notation we
indicate a paragraph by using white space and indentation)
The 3 paragraphs discuss 3 separate topics
- the lighting of the Candellabrah
- the consecration of the priests
- the making of the priestly garments
THE LIST
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The table below presents the 3 paragraphs The footnotes show
what Rashi inferred from the paragraph structure. Rashi was
also aided by OTHER VERSES as indicated in the footnotes.
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| VERSE |
PARAGRAPH |
TEXT OF VERSE |
| Ex27-20 |
CANDELABRAH |
AND YOU speak to Jews: Get oil for Menorah |
| Ex28-01 |
PRIESTHOOD |
AND YOU consecrate Aaron to priesthood*1 |
| Ex28-03 |
GARMENTS |
AND YOU speak to artisans to make garments*2 |
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COMMENTS |
*1 Rashi states
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Make the garments AFTER you make the Temple
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This is inferred using the technique of OTHER VERSES
Here is the sequence of TEMPLE CONSTRUCTED OBJECTS
in Ex35 and 40. Clearly GARMENT construction occured
after making the temple.
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VERSE WHAT ITEM WAS MADE
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Ex36-08 Temple tent
Ex36-20 Temple support beams
Ex37-01 Temple Ark
Ex37-10 Temple table
Ex37-17 Temple Candellabrah
Ex37-25 Temple Golden altar
Ex38-01 Temple copper altar
Ex38-08 Temple washbins
Ex38-09 Temple courtyard
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Ex39-02 Priestly Ayfod
Ex39-08 Priestly Choshen
Ex39-22 Priestly robe
Ex39-27 Priestly pants
Ex39-30 Priestly Temple band
Ex29-32 Everything was then completed
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Rashis second comment is
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You CONSECRATE the priests by the act of
ROBING them in the priestly garments
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Rashi inferred this identification of CONSECRATION with
ROBING, from the PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE which
lists priestly consecration (Ex28-01) with the robing
of garments (Ex28-02) in the same paragraph as follows:
---------------- PARAGRAPH Ex28-01:02 ------------------
AND YOU bring Aaron & Priests near for consecration
And these are the garments which you should make
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*2 This new paragraph AND YOU SPEAK TO ARTISANS TO MAKE GARMENTS
switches the focus to the artisans.
This new paragraph actually lasts FROM Ex28-03 to Ex28-43
Hence Rashi interprets every THEY in these verses to refer
to the artisans.*12
Because the Bible did not use indentation one might not
notice the sudden switch of topics (Artisans vs Priests)
Rashi accomplishes this via the paragraph structure
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