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      3. RASHI METHOD: GRAMMAR
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: Rashi explains verses using grammar principles, that is, rules which relate reproducable word form to word meaning. Grammatical rules neatly fall into 3 categories
      • (a) the rules governing conjugation of individual words,Biblical roots,
      • (b) the rules governing collections of words,clauses, sentences
      • (c) miscellaneous grammatical, or form-meaning, rules.
      This examples applies to Rashis Ex05-09a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w35n2.htm
      Brief Summary: Overload the people with work so that they don't dwell on vein thoughts.

This Rashi is continued from rule #2, meaning.

Most people know that the Biblical meaning of a word is determined by its underlying three-letter root. The Biblical root can be conjugated in different a) persons, b) tenses, c) pluralities, d) genders, e) constructions and f) modalities. For example I watched has a different conjugation then I will be watched even though both phrases will use the same 3 letter Hebrew root.

Additionally, a three letter root can take on new meaning based on the connective preposition used with it. For example the Hebrew root Shin-Ayin-Beth normally means dripping wax, dripping tears [of a pleaing person] drops of time - an hour, or dripping thoughts, the dwelling of thoughts on an item. How does one tell which meaning applies in a given verse? Rashi explains when this root is used with the Hebrew connective, Beth which means in, it refers to a dripping of thoughts on some matter. Hence the Rashi-suggested translation of verse Ex05-09a which states Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor in it; so that their thoughts do not dwell on vain words 


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