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    2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
    • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
    • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
    • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
    • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
    • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
    This example applies to Rashis Lv01-11a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/ex25-31a.htm
    Brief Summary:"Thigh of the altar" means "side of the altar".

    Verse Lv01-11 states And he shall kill it on the thigh of the altar northward before HaShem; and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against the altar round about. Rashi explains that thigh means side. Here Rashi explains meaning based on a common form. There are many other examples in many languages. For example an orange dress has the same color(i.e. visual form) as the fruit orange..

      Some other common examples of naming by form that occur in Rashi are
    • Ex25-31h names sculptored gold flowers by their form: And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
    • Lv13-02 names a cloud-white skin disease by an object, the cloud, with that color When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a cloud-white, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests.
    • Ex28-33a names a pomegranate appairel ornament by its form And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

    Sermonic points: There is a subtle sermonic point here: If language can name objects by form then people can classify their colleagues by form. Hence the moral implication is that we should pay attention to the form by which we appear since whether rightly, or wrongly, we are judged by that form.


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