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    7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
    BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: #NAME?
    • 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 examples applies to Rashis Dt28-06a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n11.htm
    Brief Summary: Now that Sihon has attacked you, you fully appreciate God's gifts to you in the context of your vulnerability. Therefore, be careful to continue observance.

Both the Biblical and modern author use the paragraph as a vehicle for indicating commonality of theme. Hence if two ideas are in a paragraph they may be assumed to have a similar context. The reader will no doubt recognize this formatting rule as none other than the most intuitive of the Rabbi Ishmael style rules which orthodox Jews recite every day as part of their daily prayer: the rule of inference from context. Today's example illustrates this.

    There are three broad methods of paragraph unity:
  • cause-effect
  • contrast
  • unifying theme with multiple effects

    Verses Dt29-01:08 have the following contrastive paragraph structure:
  • Now that you see your vulnerability, you fully appreciate that God is good to you;
    • General: Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
    • Detail: And I have led you forty years in the wilderness;
    • Detail: your clothes are not worn old upon you, and
    • Detail:your shoe is not worn old upon your foot.
    • Detail:You have not eaten bread,
    • Detail:neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you might know that I am the Lord your God.
    • General: And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we defeated them; And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh.
  • Contrastively,now that you have received all this good, you shouldn't think you have everything, but rather, all the more so, especially observe God's law.
    • Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

    Advanced Rashi: Rashi makes two separate comments, corresponding to the components of the above paragraph analysis.
  1. Rashi first makes the overall contrastive comment: Now that you have all these gifts from God do not rebel but watch his words.
  2. Although you were receiving gifts from God for 40 years you did not fully appreciate it in the context of your vulnerability untill Sihon attacked you.

Rashi's first comment corresponds to the contrast of the outer bullets - you have received good, so be careful to observe. Rashi's second comment corresponds to the Theme-Development-Theme structure of the first paragraph component (Which was fully analyzed in rule #6, Style above.) 


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