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    9. RASHI METHOD: SPREADSHEETS
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The common denominator of the 3 submethods of the Spreadsheet method is that inferences are made from non textual material. The 3 submethods are as follows:
    • Spreadsheet: Rashi makes inferences of a numerical nature that can be summarized in a traditional spreadsheet
    • Geometric: Rashi clarifies a Biblical text using descriptions of geometric diagrams
    • Fill-ins: Rashi supplies either real-world background material or indicates real-world inferences from a verse. The emphasis here is on the real-world, non-textual nature of the material.
    This example applies to Rashis Dt21-02b
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n9.htm
    Brief Summary: The measurement is done FROM the dead body TO each of the nearby cities.

Dt21-01:02 discussing the ceremony when an unknown murder is found states If a corpse is found slain in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him; Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain;

Rashi makes the obvious comment that Measurement requires a to and from. The verse only gives the to part of the measurement. The from part of the request is from the corpse's body.

Advanced Rashi: Rambam gives more detail (Laws of Murder Chapter 9). If say the corpse is decapitated - the head and body are separated - then you measure from the nose. My opinion is that Rambam gave the details of the laws. By contrast, Rashi spoke more to the exegesis of the text. The verses mention corpse and therefore the missing to refers to the corpse with which the verses introduces. The reason Rashi did not go into further detail is because this further detail - nose of the corpse - cannot be derived from the verses being studied. 


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