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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 Nu15-22a Nu15-22b Nu15-27a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1417.htm
      Brief Summary: Brief Summary: This sin offering is brought for violating ALL commandments if IT was done inadvertently. This speaks about IDOLATRY sins, a SINGLE sin equal to ALL commandments.

Two familiar functions of grammar in all languages are pronoun reference and plurality.

To appreciate the Rashi comment note the shifting plural and singular in verses Nu14-22:25

  • And if you have erred, and not observed all these [plural] commandments [plural], which the Lord ...
  • Then it shall be, if it [singular] is committed by ignorance ...
  • that all the congregation shall offer ... and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their inadvertent sin [singular];

Thus, this grammatical point uncovers contradictory indications - the sin is simultaneously plural and singular. Rashi resolves this contradiction using the methods of the Rashi contradiction rule. Rashi's basic approach is that We are talking about a sin offering for one commandment that is akin to all commandments: that is, the sin of idolatry. 


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