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    4. RASHI METHOD: ALIGNMENT
    BRIEF EXPLANATION: Aligning two almost identically worded verselets can suggest
    • (4a) 2 cases of the same incident or law
    • (4b) emphasis on the nuances of a case
    • (4c) use of broad vs literal usage of words
    This examples applies to Rashis Lv11-40a
    URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n13.htm
    Brief Summary: TOUCHING a dead animal makes YOU ritually impure; CARRYING a dead animal makes YOU & YOUR CLOTHING ritually impure

The table below presents an aligned extract of verses in Lv11-39, Lv11-40 Both verses discuss the affect of ritual impurity arising from contact with certain dead animals The alignment justifies the Rashi assertions that Touching certain dead animals makes only you ritually impure. Carrying the dead animals makes both you and your clothing ritually impure.

Verse Text of Verse Rashi comment
Lv11-39
  • And if any beast, of which you may eat, dies;
  • he who touches its carcass
    1. shall be unclean until the evening.
Touching a dead animal only renders the person ritually impure.
Lv11-40
  • ...he also who carries the carcass
    1. shall wash his clothes, and
    2. be unclean until the evening.
    The alignment justifies the contrast that
  • touching a dead animal only renders the person ritually impure
  • carrying a dead animal renders both the person and their clothes ritually impure.

Advanced Rashi: Rashi makes additional comments. Besides discussing what is ritually impure Rashi discusses the method of removing the status of ritual impurity. A simple prerequisite to removing ritual impurity is immersion in a ritual body of water. This immersion is alluded to in the verse by the phrase wash his clothes. The immersion suffices for removal of ritual impurity from clothing. For removal of ritual impurity from the person himself, besides immersion, there is a time requirement of waiting till evening. That is, even after immersion, the person remains ritually impure until evening. This waiting requirement is indicated in the text of the verse with the word ...and be unclean until the evening.


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