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VERSE: Ex13-03a

RULE: The infinitive form should be translated as
BE INVOLVED IN. It denotes doing an activity continuously
or many times.



EXAMPLES:
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(1) Ex13-03a Be invovled in REMEMBERING the exodus from Egypt
        >RASHI:Remember it every day

(2) Ex20-08a Be invovled in REMEMBERING the Sabbath
        >RASHI: Remember it every day. If you see a choice
        >disk then buy it for Shabbath


(3) Dt15-10a Be involved in GIVING to the poor
        >RASHI: Even 100 times (if necessary)


(4) Dt16-01a Be involved in WATCHING the Springtime (For Passover)
        >RASHI: Watch it continuously--so if Passover is
        >coming out early make the year a leap year (so
        >Passover will come out on time)


(5) Nu25-17a Be involved in HATING the Midyanites
        >RASHI: HATING denotes an ongoing activity

(6) Dt01-15c (To Judges)Be involved in LISTENING to disputes
        >RASHI: LISTENING denotes ongoing deliberate activity


(7) Dt27-01a Be involved in WATCHING these commandments
        >RASHI: WATCHING denotes an ongoing activity
        >like the word GERUND (words ending in "ing")


(8) Dt31-26a Be involved in TAKING this Sefer Torah
        >RASHI: TAKING denotes ongoing activity
        >(No further details are given but I assume
        >that the ongoing activity refers to eg
        >periodically reading and checking the Torah
        >as the 7 year cycle mentioned in Dt31)


(9) Nu06-23a Be involved in SAYING the Priestly blessing
        >Nu06-23a SAYING denotes ONGOING activity


(10) Dt15-10a BE INVOLVED IN GIVING to the poor
        RASHI: Give as many times as necessary;even 100 times

NOTES
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*1 The following example is somewhat more complicated

(10)Ex19-13a "Be involved in THROWING stones at the guilty"

   RASHI: One could kill the excecuted by eg throwing him
   from a height of 100 feet--but that would disfigure him
   and kill him immediately. Instead the guilty is executed
   by throwing him from a sufficient height that might kill
   him and if not the witnesses and then the nation keep on
   throwing stones at him. Thus intrinsic to the death
   penalty is the concept of 'repeatedly throwing'

   In the main posting it is shown that the idea of repeatedly
   throwing mainly comes from several other verses like Nu15-35,
   Lv24-14, Dt17-05:07. It is also shown how this Rashi overrides
   a talmudic derivation in Sanhedrin 45a. Finally the various
   other words in this verse are discussed and it is shown how
   the laws may be derived from them.
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