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      5. RASHI METHOD: CONTRADICTION
      BRIEF EXPLANATION:Rashi resolves contradictory verses using 3 methods.
      • (5a) Resolution using two aspects of the same event
      • (5b) Resolution using two stages of the same process
      • (5c) Resolution using broad-literal interpretation.
      This examples applies to Rashis Nu36-04b
      URL Reference: (c) http://www.Rashiyomi.com/w35n25.htm
      Brief Summary: Jubliee cancels SALES (land reverts back to original owner). But Jubilee does not cancel INHERITANCES (land acquired through an inter-tribal marriage remains in the new tribe).

The table below presents two contradictory verses. Both verses talk about the status of land ownership in the Jubilee year. The underlined words highlight the contradiction. One verse says Sold land does revert to its owner in the Jubilee year, while the other verse says Inherited land does not revert to its owner in the Jubilee year. Which is it? Does land revert to the owner in the Jubilee year or not? Rashi simply resolves this using the 2-aspects method: Sold land reverts back to the original owner in the Jubilee year. But inherited land - e.g., the land inherited by the son of a marriage of a Reuvenite daughter, who inherited her father, and then married a Shimonite man, followed by the death of the 2 parents - does not change status in the Jubilee year and consequently this land, which was initially Reubenite, would become Shimonite, since the son's tribal status is patrilineal.

Summary Verse / Source Text of verse / Source
Sold land reverts to the owner in the Jubilee year Lv25-25:28 If your brother becomes poor, and has sold away some of his possession, then if any of his kin comes to redeem it, .... But if he is not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.
Inherited land remains as is in the Jubilee year Nu36-02:04 And they said, The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the people of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. And if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, [Rashi: And e.g. the mother dies and her son inherits her] then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be given to the inheritance of the tribe where they are received; [Rashi: Because tribal status is patrilineal ] so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. And when the jubilee of the people of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be [permanantly] added to the inheritance of the tribe where they are received; so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Resolution: 2-Aspects Sold land reverts back to the original owner in the Jubilee year. But inherited land - e.g., the land inherited by the son of a marriage of a Reuvenite daughter, who inherited her father, and then married a Shimonite man, followed by the death of the 2 parents - does not change status in the Jubilee year and consequently this land, which was initially Reubenite, would become Shimonite, since the son's tribal status is patrilineal.


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