When Rabbi Yaakov died in 1064, Rashi continued learning in Worms for another year in the yeshiva of his relative, Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, who was also chief rabbi of Worms.

Upon the death of the head of the Bet din, Rabbi Zerach ben Abraham, Rashi assumed the court's leadership and answered hundreds of halakhic queries.

Many Rishonim are buried here, among them Rabbi Shlomo, known as Rashi the holy, may his merit protect us ".

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi wrote that " Rashi ’ s commentary on Torah is the ‘ wine of Torah ’.

By far the best known commentary on the Babylonian Talmud is that of Rashi ( Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, 1040 – 1105 ).

Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir ( known as Rabbeinu Tam ), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel.

The town is also the place where Rabbi Yom Tov of Falaise, grandchild of Rashi held his rabbinical court.

Intensive study of the Torah ( Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy with the commentary of Rashi ( Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi 1040-1105 ) is stressed and taught in all elementary grades, often with Yiddish translations and more notes in Haredi yeshivas.

; 1040 – 1105: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki ( Rashi ) writes important commentaries on almost the entire Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) and Talmud.

He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Eliakim b. Joseph of Mainz, a fellow student of Rashi.

On his maternal line, Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein and his wife Guta Feinstein née Davidovitch, who in turn was a descendant of a long line of Kapulyan rabbis, and of the Tosafot Yom Tov, the Shelah, the Maharshal, and Rashi.

Rashi ( Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki ) argues that " Keturah " was a name given to Hagar because her deeds were as beautiful as incense ( hence: ketores ), and / or that she remained chaste from the time she was separated from Abraham — keturah Q ' turah derives from the Aramaic word for restrained.

Yemenite Jews following the interpretation of Rabbi Salomon Isaacides, Rashi of Talmūd, believe fenugreek, which they call hilbeh, hilba, helba, or halba ( חילבה ) is the Talmudic Rubia ( רוביא ).

This view is made explicit in the Jerusalem Targum, the Targum Jonathan, the Targum Neofiti and the Fragment Targums ( where in all cases the term is translated Nilus ) as well as in the commentaries of Rashi and Rabbi Yehuda Halevi.

The debates between Dunash and others were finally decided in the centuries after his death by Rabbeinu Tam, a grandson of Rashi, who attempted to judge between the two schools of thought, and by Rabbi Joseph Kimhi, father of the noted grammarian Rabbi David Kimhi ( RaDaK ), who supported Dunash's positions.

The great figure which dominates the second half of the 11th century, as well as the whole rabbinical history of France, was the Ashkenazi Rabbi Rashi ( Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki ) of Troyes ( 1040 – 1106 ).

He was a descendant of Rashi and of the Tosafist, Rabbi Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg.

Zarphatic was written using a variant of the Hebrew alphabet, and first appeared in the 11th century, in glosses to texts of the Hebrew Bible and Talmud written by the great rabbis Rashi and Rabbi Moshe HaDarshan.

It is thought that the family of Rashi ( 1040 – 1105 ), the great Rabbi and commentator, originated in Lunel.

The classical commentary of Rashi ( Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki 1040-1105 ), who cites older sources from Judaism's Oral Torah, which is relied upon by traditional Judaic scholarship as the most basic commentary to the present time, provides an introductory explanation.

Shlomo Yitzhaki (), or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki ; February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105 ), was a medieval French rabbi and long highly esteemed as a major contribution Ashkenazi Jewry gave to Torah study.

For instance, it serves as a major source in the Torah commentary of Shlomo Yitzhaki, " Rashi ", and therefor has always been the standard fare for Ashkenaz's ( French, central European, and German ) Jews.

* Yeri ' ot Shlomo, a super-commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Torah ( in fact a commentary on Elijah Mizrachi's supercommentary on Rashi );

Samuel ben Meir ( Troyes, c. 1085 – c. 1158 ) after his death known as " Rashbam ", a Hebrew acronym for: RAbbi SHmuel Ben Meir, was a leading French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, " Rashi.

According to halakha, a man may even study the Rashi on each Torah verse in fulfillment of the requirement to review the Parsha twice with Targum ( which normally refers to Targum Onkelos ) This practice is called in Hebrew: " Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum ".

# Blessing: Rashi ( quoting Tosefta ) says that this refers to the blessing the people gave King Solomon at the dedication of the First Temple.

Rabbeinu Ḥananel says this refers to not describing the day as " Sukkot ," similar to what Rashi says at regel ( see # 3 above ).

There are numerous mentions of the word " ochlos " in the Talmud ( where " ochlos " refers to anything from " mob ," " populace " to " armed guard "), as well as in Rashi, a Jewish commentary on the Bible.

In reference to a passage in the Books of Samuel which refers to a saying about the blind and the lame, Rashi quotes a midrash which argues that the Jebusites had two statues in their city, with their mouths containing the words of the covenant between Abraham and the Jebusites ; one figure, depicting a blind person, represented Isaac, and the other, depicting a lame person, representing Jacob.

According to the Medieval Jewish scholar, Rashi, Sefer HaYashar refers to the Pentateuch, as a fulfillment of Jacob's prophecy regarding Ephraim “ His seed Ephraim will fill the nations .” ( Gen. 48: 19 ) that this refer's to Joshua's renown after the miracle of the standing of the sun.

The gum exudes from the cracks in the bark of the trunk near the root ( Rashi refers to onycha, or shecheleth, as a kind of root ).

Rashi explains that the phrase " Seventy weeks ", in verse 24, refers to seventy times seven years, or 490 years.

Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah ( in Hebrew נ ֹ ח ַ) “ This one will comfort ( in Hebrew – yeNaHamainu י ְ נ ַ ח ֲ מ ֵ נו ) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed ”, by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing ( in Hebrew – nahah – נחה ) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.

The Torah mentions Melchizedek king of Salem, identified by Rashi as being Shem the son of Noah, as a " priest " kohen.

Rashi points out that Melchizedeq was another name for Shem, son of Noah.

Rashi argued that when a stranger comes to town, the proper thing to do would be to inquire if he needs food and drink, not whether his female companion is a married woman, and hence as Abimelech did the latter, it tipped off Abraham to the fact that there is no fear of God in this place, and so he lied about his relationship with Sarah in order to avoid being killed.

Rashi argues that " Keturah " was a name given to Hagar because her deeds were as beautiful as incense ( hence: ketores ), and / or that she remained chaste from the time she was separated from Abraham — keturah Q ' turah derives from Aramaic word for restrained.

For instance, Rashi declares that the world could not survive under pure judgment and hence, as seen by, God gave precedence to divine mercy.

His commentary in an important complement to the commentary of Bartenura ( Tosafot to Bartenura ’ s Rashi, as it were – hence the title.

According to tradition, Rashi was first brought to learn Torah by his father on Shavuot day at the age of five.

His father was his main Torah teacher until his death when Rashi was still a youth.

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

He was born in the vicinity of Troyes, in around 1085 in France to his father Meir ben Shmuel and mother Yocheved, daughter of Rashi.