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      8. RASHI METHOD: DATABASES
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi makes inferences from Database queries. The precise definition of database query has been identified in modern times with the 8 operations of Sequential Query Language (SQL).
      This example applies to Rashis Dt11-17c
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n3.htm
      Brief Summary: God gives people an opportunity to repent. After that punishment is rapid.

We ask the following database query: How much time does God give people to repent after decreeing on them. The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine. This database query yields the list below. The list justifies the following Rashi inference: God gives people time to repent. However if they already have a great leader who advises them of the way of God then God punishes rapidly and immediately. The list below presents the results of the database query.

Punishment Verse Verse Content Time to repent
Destruction of Flood Gn06-03 And HaShem said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.' 120 years
Destruction of Ninveh Yn03-04 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said: 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.' 40 days
Punishment for non-observance Dt11-17 and the anger of HaShem be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which HaShem giveth you. Immediately

    Rashi explains the discrepancy in the list.
  • Ninveh and the Generation of the Flood did not have good leaders; hence God gave them time to learn His ways and repent
  • The Jews however had a great leader, Moses, who taught them the way of God. Hence they had no further need to train and learn God's way. If they sin they would be punished immediately. 


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