Reply To: Rashi on Kibud Av V'aim Regarding the Reward of Long Life

“while the obvious opposite of ‘you will live long if you do this’ is that otherwise you won’t. Rashi is saying that the Torah uses this as a means to convey a message.”

The obvious opposite is that you won’t get the life extension, not that you lose some of the life you already have. Unless you are assuming that ?????? doesn’t mean specifically shortened.

I agree with the possibility that it’s not a tenai although I’m not sure that that should make a difference considering that the whole reason why you need a tenaiy kaful is precisely that ???? ?? ?? ??? ???? ??? and it doesn’t seem too logical that when the Torah says “do this in order to get this” then it is ???? ??? but by changing the wording to “if you do this then you will get this” it is suddenly not ???? ???. If anything it should be the opposite.

And if you agree with my definition of ?????? then there’s a kashya even forgetting tenai.