Rashi wrote several Selichot ( penitential poems ) mourning the slaughter and the destruction of the region's great yeshivot.

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

Rashi wrote commentaries on all the books of Tanakh except Chronicles I & II.

Rashi wrote the first comprehensive commentary on the Talmud.

On Shevuot 3b Rashi writes " A mistaken student wrote this in the margin of the Talmud, and copyists

By the time he was 8 years old he wrote an all inclusive commentary on the Chumash based on the works of Rashi, the Ramban and Eben Ezra.

Hillel wrote a commentary to Midrash Sifra in which he often quotes Rashi and Isaac ben Melchizedek ; he also wrote a commentary to Midrash Sifre.

The resulting alphabet was remarkably similar to that of the Religious sage Rashi who wrote his commentaries on the Old Testament at that time in France.

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.

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 ".

In 2006, the Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University put on an exhibit commemorating the 900th anniversary of Rashi's death ( 2005 ), showcasing rare items from the library collection written by Rashi, as well as various works by others concerning Rashi.

These talks are printed mostly in Likkutei Sichos, and compiled in Hebrew in the 5 volume set of Biurim LePirush Rashi.

Reggio, throughout the Middle Ages, when sometimes it was written as Regio, was first an important centre of calligraphy and then of printing after this was invented, boasting the first printed edition of a Hebrew, a Rashi commentary on the Pentateuch, printed in 1475 although scholars consider Rome as the city where Hebrew printing began.

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.

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

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.

* Full text in Hebrew ( Rashi Script )

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.

Often they were written in Hebrew letters, including the block letters used in Hebrew today and Rashi script.

Nicholas utilized all sources available to him, fully mastered Hebrew and drew copiously from Rashi and other rabbinic commentaries, the Pugio Fidei of Raymond Martini and of course the commentaries of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Talmudic authorities like Rashi, Abraham ben David ( RABaD ), and Abraham ben Maimon quote Eldad as an unquestioned authority ; and lexicographers and grammarians interpret some Hebrew words according to the meaning given them in Eldad's phraseology.

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.

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.

Solitreo is the cursive form of the Ladino language, which is usually written with the Rashi form of the Hebrew alphabet.

Many works of medieval rabbinic literature were written in Hebrew, including: Torah commentaries by Abraham ibn Ezra, Rashi and others ; codifications of Jewish law, such as Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah, the Arba ' ah Turim, and the Shulchan Aruch ; and works of Musar literature ( didactic ethical literature ) such as Bahya ibn Paquda's Chovot ha-Levavot ( The Duties of the Heart ).

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.

called י ִ ש ְׂ ר ָ א ֵ ל, Israel ( Yisra ` el, meaning " one that struggled with the divine angel " ( Josephus ), " one who has prevailed with God " ( Rashi ), " a man seeing God " ( Whiston ), " he will rule as God " ( Strong ), or " a prince with God " ( Morris ), from, " prevail ", " have power as a prince ").

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.

Today, tens of thousands of men, women and children study " Chumash with Rashi " as they review the Torah portion to be read in synagogue on the upcoming Shabbat.

With it, any student who has been introduced to its study by a teacher can continue learning on his own, deciphering its language and meaning with the aid of Rashi.

Another approach to the authorship is that offered by Rashi, consistent with allegorical interpretations, rendering the narrator " he to whom peace belongs ", i. e.: God.

The intermediate level, iyyun ( concentration ), consists of study with the help of commentaries such as Rashi and the Tosafot, similar to that practised among the Ashkenazim ( historically Sephardim studied the Tosefot ha-Rosh and the commentaries of Nahmanides in preference to the printed Tosafot ).

When Esau sold the birthright of the first born to Jacob, Rashi explains that the priesthood was sold along with it, because by right the priesthood belongs to the first-born.

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.

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.

Jewish scholars of the Middle Ages, including Rashi, Radak and others, had associated no specific nation or territory with Magog, beyond locating it to the north of Israel.

* Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum ( Weekly Torah portion with Rashi )-weekly or daily study ( 1 year cycle )

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.

Up to and including Rashi, the Talmudic commentators occupied themselves only with the plain meaning of the text ; but after the beginning of the twelfth century the spirit of criticism took possession of the teachers of the Talmud.

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.

Rashi and the Tosafot on Talmud Bavli Pesachim 46a are both of the opinion that one is required to travel the distance of 4 mil to pray with a minyan.

i. 3 ) has any connection with the prophetess Huldah ; it may have meant " Cat's Gate "; some scholars, however, associate the gate with Huldah's schoolhouse ( Rashi to Kings l. c .). E.

The medieval French rabbi Rashi identified it with the Nile.