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VERSE: EXAMPLE5
RASHIS COVERED: Lv01-02c Dt18-03b Lv07-26a Lv11-21b Dt21-22b
---GRAND SUMMARY---
---METHOD 2b--
---EXAMPLES INTERPRETED LITERALLY--
---HERE IS THE DESCRIPTION FROM THE SUCCINCT SUMMARY-
2b) Lv01-02c If your offer sacrifices then
OFFER them from animals-------------(GENERAL)
OFFER them from cattle & livestock--(DETAILS)
RASHI: So you can ONLY offer animal sacrifices from cattle &
livestock. You cannot offer eg beasts.
In method 2b the GENERAL CATEGORY is focused (eg ANIMALS)
--HERE ARE THE EXAMPLES---
(22) Dt18-03b
These are the laws for those who offer SACRIFICES (GENERAL)
..whether OXEN or SHEEP (DETAILS)
So the above laws ONLY apply to OXEN and SHEEP
not to BEASTS or BIRDS
(23) Lv07-12 (Mnacoth 78a) (From talmud not Rashi)
A person who brings a thanksgiving offering
should bring the CHALAH (minchah) offering also-GENERAL
---either the MATZOH WAFER OFFERING-------------DETAIL
---or the RICH OIL CHALAH OFFERING
TALMUD: Only these two types of Minchah offerings
(Matzoh and Rich-oil-challah) can be brought.
(24) Lv07-26a (See Krituth 21a)
The verses state Lv07-26:27
Dont eat any blood-----------GENERAL STATEMENT
of birds, animals------------PARTICULAR
If you eat blood you'll be cut off (as punishment)
RASHI: So the law is that only blood of birds and animals is
prohibited (but not eg blood of fish, grasshopers etc
which is not prohibited with a cutoff punishment)*2
(25) Lv11-21b (ALso see Chullin 66a)
Lv11-21:23 reads as follows
Do not eat insect-like creatures----GENERAL
Do not eat insect-1, insect-2 ...---DETAILS
Any insect with 4 legs should not be eaten*3
RASHI:Rashi explicitly says 'you cannot eat these insect
creatures if it has the names 'insect-4..'.
So Rashi identifies the law with the specific examples
given. So Rashi is interpreting this as GENERAL-DETAIL*3
(26) Dt21-22b (Sanhedrin 45b)
The verse states
When a person commits a capital crime---GENERAL
then you should hang him on a tree(ie besides
executing him you should hang him)
...
for he has DESPISED GOD------------------DETAIL
RASHI: ALL executed people are also hung after
the execution. Even though the DETAILED stage
says "those that DESPISED GOD" should be hung,
(implying that ONLY the blasphemer and idolater
who despise God should be hung) nevertheless
we do not apply the GENERAL-DETAIL template since
the DETAIL phrase is separated from the GENERAL
phrase; And a GENERAL-DETAIL set that is separated
in not judged as a GENERAL-DETAIL style.*4
NOTES
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*1 There are certain subrules to this rule which we will not
go into here (but will go into in footnotes to this whole
topic). As a simple example of something we will not go
into, the Talmud views a GENERAL and SPECIFIC statement that
are NOT next to each other as different than 1 sentence with
GENERAL and SPECIFIC (See San 45 and Dt21-22b for an example)
*2 There is a suggestion in the Talmud that this has a
GENERAL-DETAIL-GENERAL form. Some argue that the following
sentence "If you eat blood you will die" is a GENERAL
STATEMENT. But the opposing side contends that the 1st
and last GENERAL statement do not resemble each other.
The opposing side contends that "Punishment, if
you eat blood" is different than "Prohibition, to eat blood"
This is the so called GENERAL-SPECIFIC-GENERAL case where the
1st and last general are not the same. I it will be discussed
in the footnotes (Krithuth 21a)
*3 Again there is controversy here in the talmud whether this
is GENERAL-PARTICULAR or GENERAL-PARTICULAR-GENERAL. To
ease translation I have simply called the insects insect-1
insect-2 etc (and not given their names). Please see any
good translation for names.This also is an example of whether
we use a GENERAL-PARTICULAR style or GENERAL-LIMITATION
style. See the summary footnotes on this issue.
*4 The Rambam codifies the law according to the GENERAL-DETAIL
paradigm (Only blasphemers and idolaters are hung). There is
controversy in the Talmud on the GENERAL-DETAIL paradigm
when the two phrases are separated. I have filled in the words
in Rashi to show that he brought this to make a point that
the concensus in Law is that GENERAL-DETAIL with
separation should not be judged as GENERAL DETAIL.
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