Guessing and discovering a word
Hello, Your Honor. The rabbi writes in Mida Tovah, Parashat Vaygash 2. What is a hikash? The tool of sermon called ‘hikash’ is quite vague. It is not entirely clear what is meant, and when it is used. It is quite clear that in certain places in Shas and Rishonim the phrase ‘hikash’ indicates a different measure, or a comparative sermon in general. In the appearances of hikash in the literature of Chazal as a unique measure, it usually expresses a comparison of two things that were written next to each other.
Is there an example of a hyphen that is a divination of a word, and not just an image of two things that are close to each other? On the face of it, this seems unlikely to me because why would the Torah include the same divination of a word as a divination of two close words (I’m only asking about such a case) instead of simply writing it explicitly. Like for example, “And Sarah was born in Kiryat Arba, which is Hebron,” and the verse did not write “in Kiryat Arba, in Hebron, and expected that they would be joined together.”
I didn’t understand the question. Do you mean the accent that reveals the meaning of a word, as we noted regarding the consonants like kikha-kikha and the like?
I don’t remember an example right now, but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work. Yours can also be raised in relation to a GAZH who makes a verbal disclosure.
Yes, that's exactly what I asked. It seems to me that it is different from a derivation of a word, in a situation of inference where the two words are simply adjacent to each other to what the Torah would write: “y x” and to expect that an inference will be made between them, and instead it is not easy to write x is y? In the revelation of a word from a derivation of a word, the Torah did not want to write what that word means anyway (for its own reasons) and we are only using the verse that reveals it to explain to us the meaning in another verse. Also, the fact that it is a revelation of a word is not really a measure of exegesis but more of a way to interpret the text according to the literal meaning, which is why we learn in a derivation of a word from the words of Kabbalah to the Torah, etc., what's more, I can find myself doing a revelation of a word in any text, not just in the Torah. In the derivation of a word, on the other hand, I don't see a way to see it that way.
I would appreciate the Rabbi's consideration of his in-depth knowledge of the subject. For example, how can such a deduction between two adjacent words be formulated as a word-for-word revelation?
I don't know.
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