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      2. RASHI METHOD: WORD MEANING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION: The meaning of words can be explained either by
      • (2a) translating an idiom, a group of words whose collective meaning transcends the meaning of its individual component words,
      • (2b) explaining the nuances and commonality of synonyms-homographs,
      • (2c) describing the usages of connective words like also,because,if-then, when,
      • (2d) indicating how grammatical conjugation can change word meaning
      • (2e) changing word meaning using the figures of speech common to all languages such as irony and oxymorons.
      This examples applies to Rashis Dt18-12a
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n4.htm
      Brief Summary: The word KAPH LAMED can mean ALL (no exceptions) or the WHOLE/ANY (all parts).

Verse Dt18-12a discussing the prohibition of following Canaanite customs states For whosoever doeth any of these things is an abomination unto HaShem; and because of these abominations HaShem thy G-d is driving them out from before thee. The Rashi comment is straightforward: It does not say For whosoever doeth these things....is an abomination but rather it says For whosoever doeth any of these things ...is an abomination. Hence a person who only does one of them has committed an abomination.

Advanced Rashi: Note that this uses the method of special connective words. The special connective word method refers to words like if, also, when, all, because, that.... Rashi's goal when dealing with special connective words is to list all usages of these words. Sometimes Rashi does this explicitly; other times Rashi lists throughout the Torah the various usages and the student must infer the list. 


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