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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 Dt30-03a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w34n12.htm
      Brief Summary: God will return [WITH] you. Rashi: God returns you; God Himself returns.
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Verse Dt30-03 states Then the LORD thy God will return [with] thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. We have translated this Hebrew vers pun: The verse says both God will return thy captivity and also says God will return with thy captivity. In the Hebrew text the conjugation Vav-Shin-Beth is used indicating that God himself will return; the proper conjugation would be the causative mode, Vav-Hey-Shin-Yud-Beth indicating that God will cause your (the Jews) return. Using either the Hebrew or English we see a pun: The Bible should be saying that God will return the Jews and instead says God Himself will return. This distortion of grammar indicates a deliberate intent of the Author to impart a secondary meaning. Hence the Rashi comment: Not only are the Jews returned but also God Himself also returns.

This pun has two purposes. First, this pun poetically depicts God as being with the Jews in exile and suffering with us. Second the pun emphasizes that without the presence of the Jews, God's presence cannot be found in Israel. 


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