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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 Gn06-09d
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w33n5.htm
      Brief Summary: NOAH WALKED WITH GOD, that is, he CONTINUOUSLY walked with God. This PRESENT PROGRESSIVE can be indicated with the PAST CONJUGATION.

Verse Gn06-09d discussing the righteousness of Noah states These are the generations of Noah. Noah was in his generations a man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walked with G-d.

The underlined sentence Noah walked with G-d. indicates the present progressive, that is, Noah continuously walked with God. To understand this, we contrast, for example, the simple present, for example, I am eating an apple with the present progressive, for example, I eat an apple every day which indicates a present activity that progressively continues. With this background we have the following Rashi:

The simple present is indicated by the present conjugation. The present progressive can be indicated by the past conjugation. 


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