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      7. RASHI METHOD: FORMATTING
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Inferences from Biblical formatting: --bold,italics, and paragraph structure.
      • Use of repetition to indicate formatting effects: bold,italics,...;
      • use of repeated keywords to indicate a bullet effect;
      • rules governing use and interpretation of climactic sequence;
      • rules governing paragraph development and discourse
      This example applies to Rashis Nu28-14c       URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rule1224.htm
      Brief Summary: This is the MONTHLY-OFFERING IN ITS MONTH Rashi: Every month is unique; no makeups for skipped months

We have explained in our article Biblical Formatting located on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf, that the Biblical Author indicates bold, italics, underline by using repetition. In other words if a modern author wanted to emphasize a word they would either underline, bold or italicize it. However when the Biblical author wishes to emphasize a word He repeats it. The effect - whether thru repetition or using underline - is the same. It is only the means of conveying this emphasis that is different.

Verse Nu28-14c discussing the monthly offering states And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for a ram, and a fourth part of a hin for a lamb; this is the monthly burnt offering in its month throughout the months of the year. The repeated (actually triplicated!) underlined word phrase month month month indicates an unspecified emphasis. Rashi translates this unspecified emphasis as monthly offering but only in its month That is Rashi translates the verse as follows: And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for a ram, and a fourth part of a hin for a lamb; this is the monthly burnt offering unique to its month throughout the months of the year. In other words Every month has a unique offering. Consequently, if you accidentally skipped a monthly offering you cannot make it up by offering two monthly offerings next month.

Advanced Rashi: This Rashi has a moral message for people involved in projects. The message is a sacrificial symbolic affirmation of the law of lost time. If you have a project - secular, religious, investment, personal, health related - and that project is moving forward with energy then if you lose a day perhaps you can make it up but if you take a vacation for a month you lose that month. You can't make up that month in the coming month. The month is lost. This is an important principle. You can celebrate and take your vacation between projects but not during them. Hence the Biblical verse/Rashi: The up offering of each month in its unique month


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