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      5. RASHI METHOD: CONTRADICTION
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi resolves contradictory verses using 3 methods.
      • (5a) Resolution using two aspects of the same event
      • (5b) Resolution using two stages of the same process
      • (5c) Resolution using broad-literal interpretation.
      This examples applies to Rashis Dt11-21b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n7.htm
      Brief Summary: a) TO you and b) TO your decendants I have given this land. I give to DECSENDANTS...Land I swore to give to THEM

    The table below presents two contradictory verses. Both verses talk about the giving of Israel to the Jews. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verse says Israel was given to the descendants of Abraham while the other verse says Israel was given to Abraham (and the other Patriarchs). Which is it? Was Israel given only to the descendants of the Jews or was Israel given to Abraham also (which sounds strange, since Abraham didn't receive Israel during his lifetime, or, is the intention of the verse that he will inherit it upon resurrection.) Rashi simply resolves this using the 2 aspects method. method: Israel was given both to a) the Jews, the descendants of Abraham and to b) Abraham himself. But the delivery was different: Israel was delivered to the Jews in this world while Israel is delivered to Abraham at the resurrection. This resolution is explicitly stated at Gn13-15:
      For all the land which you see,
    • to you will I give it, and
    • to your seed forever.

Summary Verse / Source Text of verse / Source
The descendants of Abraham, the Jews inherit Israel. Gn12-07
    And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said,
  • to your descendants will I give this land; ...
Israel is given to Abraham himself, hinting at his resurrection. Dt11-21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Resolution: 2 Aspects
    Israel was given both to a) the Jews, the descendants of Abraham and to b) Abraham himself. But the delivery was different: Israel was delivered to the Jews in this world while Israel is delivered to Abraham at the resurrection. This resolution is explicitly stated at Gn13-15:
      For all the land which you see,
    • to you will I give it, and
    • to your seed forever.

Advanced Rashi: We can analyze this Rashi using Rule #4, Alignment, or Rule #5, Contradiction or Rule #7, Formatting. See below. 


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