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      7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
      • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
      • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
      • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
      • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
      This example applies to Rashis Gn31-03a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1316.htm
      Brief Summary: God told Jacob: 1) Return to your homeland (Away from Laban) and as a consequence 2) I will be with you.

    The Formatting rule includes the methods of writing consecutive paragraph or sentences. Just as a paragraph is a collection of sentences unified by a topic sentence and developed by supporting sentences, so too, a chapter very often has a theme that is developed by a skillfully sequenced set of paragraphs. Rashi knew of 3 methods of writing consecutive paragraphs
    • Cause-effect: The second paragraph is the effect of the first paragraph. The first paragraph is the cause of the second paragraph.
    • Contrast: The two paragraphs illustrate contrasting sides of a theem.
    • Unified theme: The two or more paragraphs illustrate a common theme. For example a common theme may be illustrated by a sequence of paragraphs each of which exemplifies and illustrates the theme idea.
    The above three principles indicate methods for paragraph development into chapters as well as method for sentence development into paragraphs.

We formerly classified paragraph and chapter development under the grammar rule. However we think it more proper to devote the grammar rule to the relation between meaning and form, for example how verb conjugational forms indicates meaning. As indicated above the formatting rule governs use of sequence to indicate climax and paragraph sequencing.

    Rashi on Gn31-03a explains the sequence in two paragraphs/sentences indicating a cause-effect relationship.
  • Gn31-03a And HaShem said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred;
  • Gn31-03a and I will be with thee.'

    Advanced Rashi: Rashi has two points:
    • The statement I God will be with you is the effect of Jacob going home and leaving Laban. That is Rashi interprets 1) Return to your homeland and leave Laban and 2) I God will then be with you [to re-enter a continual prophetic relationship.]
    • Rashi in effect negates a reverse sentence with reverse causality: e.g. (1) I God will be with you [to protect you] and as a consequence (2) you can return to your father's house. Instead
    In other words Rashi inteprets I God will be with you as referring to continual prophetic relationship vs. protection. Rashi does this by studying the cause-effect relationship in the verse. 


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