Rashi points out that Rebecca, Rachel and Leah were also prophets.

Zarah, 34a, where for " Akiva " should be read " UḲba ," the Babylonian, as Rashi on Ta ' anit, 11b, points out.

Rashi is of the view that an individual is obligated to pray with a minyan, while Nahmanides holds that only if ten adult males are present are they obliged to recite their prayer together, but an individual is not required to actively seek out a minyan.

Maimonides disagrees with Rashi, pointing out that the Biblical spelling of the word tzitzit has only one yod rather than two ( giving it a gematria of 590 plus 13 ), thus adding up to the total number of 603 rather than 613.

His wishes were never carried out, and his money was used to publish another of Segal's works, Divrei David (" The Words of David "), a supercommentary on Rashi ( Dyhernfurth, 1690 ).

In his commentary, Rashi furnished a well-paved road to the Talmud ; while the Ravad, by his acute criticism, pointed out the way intelligently and with discrimination.

The metzorah must also cover his or her face until the upper lip in the fashion of mourners, and he or she calls out " impure, impure " to warn others to keep their distance ( Rashi Commentary on Leviticus 13: 45 ).

Rashi comments on this verse that " The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant.

According to Rashi, the being was the guardian angel of Esau himself, sent to destroy Jacob before he could return to the land of Canaan.

According to the traditional counting cited by Rashi, Isaac was 37 years old at the time of the Binding of Isaac, and news of Rebekah's birth reached Abraham immediately after that event.

Rashi comments on this verse that " The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant.

The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also ; however, according to the Talmud ( Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b ), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others.

Others, such as the medieval commentator Rashi, held on the contrary that the building of the Ark was stretched over 120 years, deliberately in order to give sinners time to repent.

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.

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.

Rashi and his family survived the major anti-semitic outbreak when he was 45 years old ; many of his teachers who were some of Judaism's greatest Ashkenazi sages and his mentors did not survive.

Rashi was an only child born at Troyes, Champagne, in northern France.

On his father's side, Rashi has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of Yochanan Hasandlar, who was a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel the Elder, who was reputedly descended from the royal line of King David.

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.

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.

* Rashi's middle daughter, Miriam, married Judah ben Nathan, who completed the commentary on Talmud Makkot which Rashi was working on when he died.

Because of the large number of merchant-scholars who came from throughout the Jewish world to attend the great fairs in Troyes, Rashi was able to compare different manuscripts and readings in Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud, Midrash, Targum, and the writings of the Geonim, and determine which readings should be preferred.

In some commentaries, the text indicates that Rashi died before completing the tractate, and that it was completed by a student.

Rashi 30: 12 ); for when he ascended the throne he was as pure as a child, and had never committed sin ( Yoma 22b ).

Rashi 1: 10 ) The fact that he was merciful even to his enemies, being indulgent to rebels themselves, and frequently waiving the homage due to him, was incredible as well as deceiving.

These were the basis of Simcha ben Samuel's Machzor Vitry ( 11th century France ), which was based on the ideas of his teacher, Rashi.

According to the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a, Rashi to Megillah 3a, 14a ), much of the contents of the Tanakh was compiled by the Men of the Great Assembly ( Anshei K ' nesset HaGedolah ), a task completed in 450 BCE, and have remained unchanged since that date.

The medieval version of the cursive script forms the basis of another style, known as Rashi script.

His name is composed in Hebrew of the same three consonants as a root speculated by people to have originally meant " breath ", because rabbis postulated one of its roots thus, also " waste ", but is used in the Hebrew Bible primarily as a metaphor for what is " elusive ", especially the " vanity " ( another definition by the rabbis of medieval France, Rashi in specific from his translation into Old French ) of human beauty and work e. g. Hevel Hayophi ( He-vel Ha-yo-fi ) vanity is as beauty from the Song of Songs of Solomon.

" Rashi, on says Isaac's suspicions were aroused even more, because Esau never used the personal name of God.

In the 11th century, Jewish bible commentator Rashi writes of a Biblical tradition that the name Dāgôn is related to Hebrew dāg / dâg ' fish ' and that Dagon was imagined in the shape of a fish: compare the Babylonian fish-god Oannes.

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.

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.

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.

There is an interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah ( 43: 2 ), cited by Rashi, that Eliezer went alone with Abraham to rescue Lot, with the reference to " his initiates " stated to be 318 in number ( Lech-Lecha 14: 14 ) being the numerical value of Eliezer's name in Hebrew, interpreted in tractate Nedarim ( 32a ) as Abraham not wishing to rely on a miracle by taking only one individual.

Rashi interprets the name to mean " he who spices the craft of Cain.

The term Magdiel, which appears in Genesis 36: 43, was apparently interpreted as Rome ( see Rashi on that verse ), so that his name was really Yiram of Rome.

Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the text in a concise, lucid fashion, Rashi appeals to both learned scholars and beginning students, and his works remain a centerpiece of contemporary Jewish study.

Following the burning of the Yeshovoth in Mainz and Worms by the Crusaders, Rashi started a successful school in Troyes, which lasted for generations ( until the second crusade ).

From his teachers, Rashi imbibed the oral traditions pertaining to the Talmud as they had been passed down for centuries, as well as an understanding of the Talmud's unique logic and form of argument.

It is thought by some that Rashi earned his living as a vintner since Rashi shows an extensive knowledge of its utensils and process, but there is no evidence for this.

According to this view, Saul is only a weak branch ( Gen. Rashi 25: 3 ), owing his kingship not to his own merits, but rather to his grandfather, who had been accustomed to light the streets for those who went to the bet ha-midrash, and had received as his reward the promise that one of his grandsons should sit upon the throne ( Lev.

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.

The Vilna Gaon who wore the tefillin of Rashi, suggested that there are as many as sixty-four possibilities for the arrangement of the tefillin scrolls.

" This repetition of the term never again is explained by Rashi, the preeminent biblical commentator, as serving as an oath, citing the TalmudShavous 36a for this ruling. Metsudah Chumash and Rashi, KTAV Publishing House, 1991. page 88

( Note: The Talmud quoted by Rashi says that his wives built the temples and he is considered responsible for not stopping them.

The writings and rulings of those such as Rashi ( 1040 – 1105 ), Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), Yosef Karo ( 1488 – 1575 ) who published the most widely accepted code of Jewish law the Shulkhan Arukh, Isaac Luria ( 1534 – 1572 ), the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), the Chafetz Chaim ( 1838 – 1933 ) and many others have shaped Jewish religious law for almost two thousand years, as their religious rulings were published, distributed, studied, and observed until the present time.

His works include: Trumat ha-Deshen, 354 responses, he edited by himself, and Psakim u-Chtavim, 267 responses, edited by his pupils after his death ( Both printed in Venice already in 1519 ), Beurim, commentaries on Rashi ’ s Commentary on Torah, 36 Shearim ( 36 Gates ), laws on Kashrut, and Seder Gitin, a handbook for divorces.

Rashi notes that he " spiced and refined the Cain's craft to make weapons for murderers.

When he does not understand a particular text, he follows the example of Rashi and writes, " I did not understand the reason why this story appears in this particular place ," or " I did not find a proper reason for it.

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.

On the other hand, Rashi, basing his view on the Leviticus Rabbah, states that tzaraath of houses was a reward for the homeowner, arguing that the Israelite homes had previously been those of Canaanites, who had hidden their valuables in the walls ; the tzaraath required the house owner to remove the bricks, and so find the treasures hidden there.

* Hagahot haBach ( Glosses of the Bach )-suggestions for textual emendations in the Talmud and Rashi, copied from the notes that the author added to his copy of the Talmud.