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    4. RASHI METHOD: ALIGNMENT
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Aligning two almost identically worded verselets can suggest
    • (4a) 2 cases of the same incident or law
    • (4b) emphasis on the nuances of a case
    • (4c) use of broad vs literal usage of words
    This examples applies to Rashis Ex27-17a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n9.htm Brief Summary: All Pillars, stakes and hooks - on north, south, east, west - are copper.

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses in Ex27-09:14 All verses discuss the obligation of making Temple walls with pillars, stakes and hoooks. The alignment justifies the Rashi assertions that The pillars, stakes and hooks - whether in north, south, east and west - must be copper.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Ex27-11
    And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long,
    1. and its twenty pillars and their
    2. twenty sockets of copper;
    3. the hooks of the pillars and
    4. their joints of silver
  • pillars and
  • sockets of copper;
  • pillar hooks and
  • joints of silver;
Ex27-12
    And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits;
    1. their pillars ten, and
    2. their sockets ten.
    The material of the western side pillars and sockets is not explicitly mentioned. However, verse Ex27-17 explicitly states
    • All the pillars around the court shall be bound with silver;
    • their hooks shall be of silver,
    • and their sockets of copper.
    showing that all pillars are silver and all sockets copper whether they are in the north, south, west or south.

Advanced Rashi: In the above Rashi we have only cited the verses with the south and west side. Rashi cites a similar alignment of the verses for the north and east side.


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