Questions tagged [rashi]
Rabbi Shlomo of Troyes, 1040-1104, and his works
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How many times does the law follow Samuel in ritual practice?
The Talmud (Shabbat 22a) records the following:
איתמר רב אמר אין מדליקין מנר לנר ושמואל אמר מדליקין רב אמר אין מתירין ציצית מבגד לבגד ושמואל אמר מתירין מבגד לבגד רב אמר אין הלכה כרבי שמעון בגרירה ...
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Is A Plural Verb Indicative on Singular or Plural When Modifying Elokim
Rashi on Shemot 32:1 says bnei Yisrael desired many gods (ד״ה ״אשר ילכו לפנינו״) because as Be’er Mayim Chaim points out, the verse uses the plural verb ילכו instead of ילך. There really should be no ...
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Rashi’s Explanation Doesn’t Seem to Fit in the Dibbur Hamatchil
Rashi on Shemot 32:18 explains קול ענות גבורה and קול ענות חלושה however the dibbur hamatchil is אין קול ענות גבורה. Why is he explaining the קול ענות חלושה here when the dibbur hamatchil indicates ...
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Because of Bnei Yisrael or Not
Rashi (שמות לב:ז ד״ה ״לך רד), sourcing Brachot 32a, explains that HKB”H tells Moshe to descend from his greatness because H’ only gave Moshe greatness on account of bnei Yisrael. In addition, Moshe ...
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Understanding Kli Yakor question on Rashi about Betzalal following Moishe's instructions
The Gemara says in Berachos (55a)
א״ר שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר נַחְמָנִי א״ר יוֹנָתָן בְּצַלְאֵל עַל שֵׁם חָכְמָתוֹ נִקְרָא בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁאָמַר לוֹ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לְמֹשֶׁה לֵךְ אֱמוֹר לוֹ ...
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Contradiction in Rashi regarding why the Jews did not take the spoils at Purim
On Esther 8:11, Rashi explains that
וְהֵם בַּבִּזָּה לֹא שָׁלְחוּ אֶת יָדָם, שֶׁהֶרְאוּ לַכֹּל שֶׁלֹּא נַעֲשָׂה לְשֵׁם מָמוֹן
They "did not send forth their hand in the spoils," to show ...
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Why was it a miracle that Achashveirosh's sleep was disturbed?
There's plenty of reasons why someone couldn't sleep. Maybe Achashveirosh, being the king of half the world, had a lot on his mind that he had to deal with. Maybe he just simply couldn't sleep. Maybe ...
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Slaughtering with a non-kosher knife לכתחילה (Rashi, חולין דף ח ע״ב)
Rashi to Chulin 8 amud 2 takes the unusual step of mentioning the practical halacha that he derived from the g'mara. He says that, because the g'mara came to no conclusion about what to do with an ...
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Why does Rashi explain “למאי נפקא מינה” on חולין דף ח ע״א?
The Bavli, Chulin 8 amud 1:
איבעיא להו ליבן שפוד והכה בו משום שחין נדון או משום מכוה נדון
As explained by Rashi, the g'mara is asking as follows: Suppose someone heated a spit and hit someone with ...
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Why does Rashi explain where yoke of Mitzvos is discussed in Parshas Tzitzis?
Berachos 12b:
פָּרָשַׁת צִיצִית מִפְּנֵי מָה קְבָעוּהָ? אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוּדָה בַּר חֲבִיבָא, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁיֵּשׁ בָּהּ חֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים: מִצְוַת צִיצִית, יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם, עוֹל מִצְוֹת, וְדַעַת ...
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Kavana or Ma’aseh? What Matters?
Ohr Hachaim explains Breishit 50:20 by way of a mashal: someone intended to give his fellow poison but ended up giving him wine. The perpetrator is not deemed to be chayav for what he intended to do.
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Can eilu veilu apply to historical/factual reality or not?
This answer by @Alex says
Rashi (כתובות נז. ד"ה הא) already notes that "eilu v'eilu" is only applicable in a machlokes in sevarah, where sometimes one sevarah can be correct while at other times ...
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Num. 11:5 What is Rashi's identification of הָאֲבַטִּחִים (commonly translated “the melons”)?
Rashi's note on Num. 11:5 הָאֲבַטִּחִים is
בורק"ש
per
http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/olam_hatanah/mefaresh.asp?book=4&perek=11&mefaresh=rashi, accessed Dec. 2019.
How is this read and what ...
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Why did Esav nickname his wife Yehudis?
In Breishis 36:2, Rashi says
Oholibamah: She is [identical to] Judith (mentioned above 26:34). He (Esau) nicknamed her Judith (יְהוּדִית) to imply that she denied the validity of idolatry, so that ...
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Why does Rashi change a claim of holiness made by his supposed source or switch sources midstream?
Follow up to this question about Bereishit 31:53.
A word from the "eloh" root is used 3 times in that pasuk. In the Artscroll, there is the word "chol" in the margins for 2 of them, which echoes ...
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Did Rashi learn Kabbalah?
On Bereishis 27:27, Rashi makes the following comment:
כריח שדה אשר ברכו ה'. שֶׁנָּתַן בּוֹ רֵיחַ טוֹב וְזֶהוּ שְׂדֵה תַּפּוּחִים, כָּךְ דָּרְשׁוּ רַזִ"לִ:
The Artscroll Chumash Rashi set ...
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Pesukim in Chumash where Rashi adds in extra words or switches order
I have been trying to remember examples in chumash where Rashi uses dikduk rules to significantly change the order of words or add words to a passuk so that it has another meaning.
What are some ...
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How should Rashi's comment about Noah's belief be parsed?
Rashi in his commentary to Genesis 7:7 writes:
אף נח מקטני אמנה היה מאמין ואינו מאמין שיבא המבול ולא נכנס לתיבה עד שדחקוהו המים
I see (at least) two ways to read this:
Noah believed in general (...
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Rashi's explanation of why we are told that Avram was 86 at the birth of Yishma'el
Bereishit 16:16:
וְאַבְרָ֕ם בֶּן־שְׁמֹנִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְשֵׁ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֑ים בְּלֶֽדֶת־הָגָ֥ר אֶת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל לְאַבְרָֽם׃
Avram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Yishma'el to Avram.
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How did Noah react to being childless?
Rashi to Genesis 5:32 reads:
אמר רבי יודן מה טעם כל הדורות הולידו למאה שנה וזה לחמש מאות אמר הקב״ה אם רשעים הם יאבדו במים ורע לצדיק זה ואם צדיקים הם אטריח עליו לעשות תיבות הרבה כבש את מעיינו ולא ...
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Why did people under 100 die in the mabul?
On Bereishis 5:32, Rashi brings an explanation that Noach had children when he was 500
so that Japheth, his eldest son, should not be liable for punishment before the Flood, as it is written (Isa. ...
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Beracha and Kedusha referring to the generation of the desert
Rashi in his commentary on Bereishis 2:3 explains that the beracha of shabbos is in the future when the mannah fell during the week and an extra portion fell on Friday and kedusha is also in the ...
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Why cannot a convert make certain statements? I feel they are being pushed away at the same time respect is being given to them
It is stated that a convert is in the same regard considered a Jew as a native born. Rashi on Dvarim 26:11 states that a convert cannot recite the declaration כי באתי אל הארץ נשמע ה׳ לאבתינו לתת לנו. ...
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Tamim tihye and predicting the future
On the pasuk "Tamim tihye im Hashem Elokecha" (Devarim 18:13), Rashi says :
Conduct yourself with Him with simplicity and depend on Him, and do not inquire of the future; rather, accept whatever ...
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What does Rashi mean by the words “לחבר ולפטרון”?
In Parshas Vayigash (פרק מה פסוק ח), Yosef tells his brothers to tell Yaakov Avinu that
וישימני לאב לפרעה
"[G-d] made me a father to Pharaoh". Rashi comments and says that this means
לחבר ...
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Hebrew text of Ramban on Leviticus 19,19
The reason for forbidden mixtures is that God created species in the world - in all of those with spirits, in plants and in animate beings - and gave them the ability to reproduce, such that the ...
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Rashi on Adam and on the Snake cunningness
The snake was able to speak from its creation (Likutei Sichos (10) p. 13) so why is man singled out as being capable of speech (דעה ודבור acc. to Rashi) if the snake already had it?
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Rashi's commentary on Deut. 4:19
I'm having trouble understanding how Rashi is reading Tehillim 36:3 in his commentary on Deut. 4:19.
In Rashi's commentary on Deut. 4:19, he puts forward two possible interpretations of "asher ...
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How is it “well-known” that Esav hates Ya'akov?
Rash"i in Breishit 33:4 cites Sifrei, by stating:
הֲלָכָה הִיא בְּיָדוּעַ שֶׁעֵשָׂו שׂוֹנֵא לְיַעֲקֹב
It is a well-known halacha that Esav hates Ya'akov
How is this "well-known"? Based on ...
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Understanding Rashi's opinion regarding who said the book of Devarim
The Gemara (Megilla 31b) says: "[In reading] the curses that are in Deuteronomy one may pause [it may be broken up into several aliyot]. Why? Those [that are in Leviticus, which must be read in one ...
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Rashi quoting Yerushalmi on Kodshim
I haven't learned Seder Kodshim before, and I understand there's no Talmud Yerushalmi on Seder Kodshim, but I saw in a bunch of places in maseches Temurah where Rashi quotes "loshon Yerushalmi" (...
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Why did Rashi choose Hebrew over Aramaic?
Rashi chose a form of Medieval Hebrew to write his commentaries, which facilitates the life of many students, as the Aramaic content in his writing is very low compared to the Gemara or contemporary ...
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Whose spirit and whose lips are referred to in Psalms 106:33?
32וַיַּקְצִיפוּ עַל־מֵי מְרִיבָה וַיֵּרַע לְמֹשֶׁה בַּעֲבוּרָם ׃
33: כִּי־הִמְרוּ אֶת־רוּחוֹ וַיְבַטֵּא בִּשְׂפָתָיו׃
32: They provoked wrath at the waters of Meribah and Moses suffered on ...
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Parshas Korach: Why does the Torah say Moshe got very angry, and Rashi translates it as Moshe got very distressed or pained
In Parshas Korach (Bamidbar 16:15), the Torah says ויחר למשה מאוד. Rashi translates it as Moshe was distresed a lot. Rashi doesnt say Moshe was very angry.
Why doesnt Rashi translate it the way the ...
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Why does Rashi preface his comments by saying “The Medrash Explains This Well”?
The first Rashi in Parshas Korach contains an introduction, where Rashi says that the Medrash explains this section well:
ויקח קרח. פָּרָשָׁה זוֹ יָפֶה נִדְרֶשֶׁת בְּמִדְרַשׁ רַבִּי
תַנְחוּמָא:
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Why didn't Moshe apply the rule that stam mittah in the Torah, if not specified otherwise, is henek?
Rashi explains (14:34) that Moshe knew that the "mekoshesh eitzim" was mehuyav mittah, but he didn't know which one because it wasn't said anywhere befeirush. Why didn't Moshe apply the rule that ...
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Explain usage of “kaved” re Moshe's raising his hands w/ war of Amaleq
In Shemot 17:12 it says:
וידי משה כבדים
Targum (and Rash"i in a sense) translates כבדים as יקרן, which I gather means "precious".
I don't know where or how this translation fits here. Doesn't כבד ...
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Did Rashi make halachic rulings?
Did Rashi issue any halachic rulings? (Examples?) Or did he simply provide useful and succinct explanations, drawn from the Sources, for those studying Torah?
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Commentary on Psalm 23:4 is this accurate? [closed]
raashi commentary on the verse in psalm
"Valley of the shadow of death"
Good nefeshim do not suffer the pangs of death as much as evil nefeshim suffer, for the hazaruth ha mautim touches the ...
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Why was Shmitta specifically chosen to teach that the intricacies of all mitzvot were given at Har Sinai?
(related to "Ma Inyan Shmitta Eitzel Har Sinai" but not the same)
Parshas B'Har starts off saying Hashem spoke to Moshe on Har Sinai and instructed Moshe about the mitzvah of Shmitta.
Rashi (s.v. ...
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The twelve plagues of Rashi
The Vilna Gaon (Gra) has a quite challenging comment on Midrash Seder Olam Rabbah 3:2 that Rashi says the Makkot were twelve:
I haven't found this Rashi anywhere explicitly in him Chumash peirush.
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What is the meaning of “וְדַעַת קְדֹשִׁים בִּינָה”?
The book of Mishlei contains deep wisdom with many layers of meaning which is often hard to grasp. Fortunately, such great commentators as Rashi provide clear explanations of the true meaning. However,...
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“Vaishakehu” Extra Points over entire word? or some letters?
Shalom!
The famous Passuk on which Esav and Jaacov ran, hug, kiss and cry.
The Word VAISHAKEHU has points-dots over every leter.
Siftei Chakhamim seems to have VAISHAKEHU וישקהו with 5 nekudot, ...
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Why does Rashi translate בירה differently in different places?
In some places, Rashi translates בירה as a "מגדל [גדול]", a "[large] tower" (Bava Kamma 61b, Taanis 16a). In other places he translates it as a "בית גדול", a "large house" (Bava Kamma 22a, Gittin ...
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Giving credit where credit is due [duplicate]
-The Talmud says, in two places, "He who reports a saying in the name of its author brings deliverance to the world." [Megillah 15a; Chullin 104b]
-The Talmud is very careful to always attribute its ...
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We need ten consolers; why not ten mourners?
The mishna, M'gila 23 amud 2 as described by Rashi, says we don't say the mourners' outdoor blessing without the presence of ten people, and the mourners themselves don't count toward the requisite ...
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“Amar Rabbi Yitzchak” - Who is Rabbi Yitzchak?
Rashi opens his commentary to the Chumash with the words Amar Rabbi Yitzchak, "Rabbi Yitzchak said." However I am unsure the identity of this Rabbi Yitzchak. I have been unable to find a source for ...
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Additional differences of Rashi's Torah scroll
Rashi on Shmot 25,20 interprets the Vav we don't have in our Torah scrolls:
"ואת כל אשר אצוה אותך אל בני ישראל. הרי וי"ו זו יתירה וטפלה, וכמוהו הרבה במקרא"
Siftey Chachamim explains:
"אע"פ שאין ...
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Why, according to Rashi, do the words Aron Ha-Elokim refer to the Urim Ve-Tumim, and not the Aron Ha-Kodesh in I Shmuel 14:18?
Rashi comments to the words "Aron Ha-Elokim" in Shmuel I 14:18, saying that these words refer to the Urim Ve-Tumim. Why does Rashi understand these words to be referring to the Urim Ve-Tumim, when ...
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What is the horn of Amalek?
Tehillim 75:11 states
וכל־קרני רשעים אגדע תרוממנה קרנות צדיק
All the horns of the wicked I will cut; but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
Rashi explains that the horns of the ...
