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      8. RASHI METHOD: DATABASES
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi makes inferences from Database queries. The precise definition of database query has been identified in modern times with the 8 operations of Sequential Query Language (SQL).
      This example applies to Rashis Ex25-02d Ex25-02c Ex25-02b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/ex25-02d.htm
      Brief Summary: Two temple sources: Voluntary donations for initial construction; obligatory tax for upkeep.

We ask the following database query: How many ways was money obtained for the Temple? How was the obtained money used? The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine. This database query yields the list below. The list justifies the following Rashi-Midrashic inference: Money for the Temple was obtained in two ways: a) Voluntary gifts, b) Obligatory taxes. The obtained money was used for I)Temple construction II) silver utensils III) daily offerings and upkeep. The very beautiful list given in rule #10 below presents the results of the database query with over half a dozen examples. The serious student is urged to carefully review it now.

Verse Verse Text Money Obtained by Money used for
Ex25-02:08 ###### Voluntary donation Temple Construction
Ex30-12:14, Ex38-27 ###### Obligatory Tax Temple Construction
Ex30-12:14, Nu28-03 ###### day by day, for a continual burnt offering Obligatory Tax Daily Temple upkeep, Daily offerings

Advanced Rashi: Notice that the Torah does not explicitly state where the daily offerings come from. Rather, Rashi infers this from as a reasonable supposition: There was a requirment for the community to offer 730 lambs throughout the year. It is reasonable that these daily offerings were funded from the yearly half-dollar tax.


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