Questions tagged [rashi]
Rabbi Shlomo of Troyes, 1040-1104, and his works
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Theoretically, may a Sidra begin in the middle of a Parsha, besides for Vayechi?
Rashi at the beginning of Vayechi (Bereishis 47:28) asks:
לָמָּה פָּרָשָׁה זוֹ סְתוּמָה
Why is this Parsha “closed”?
As Sifsei Chachamim ad. loc. explains:
למה פרשה זו סתומה כו'. כלומר ...
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Who wrote Ikar Siftei Chachamim?
Siftei Chachamim (שפתי חכמים) is a super-commentary on Rashi's commentary on the Torah, written by the 17th-Century CE Polish scholar Shabbethai Bass. It tends to be included in Mikraot Gedolot ...
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Why would it be better for Rashi to say nothing than to say he doesn’t know?
This question previously asked why Rashi sometimes says he doesn’t know what a passuk comes to teach us. Both the questioner there and the various sources cited in this answer there seem to assume ...
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Explain Rashi / Mechilta on Shemot 24:3
In Shemot 24:3, regarding the term mishpatim, Rash"i citing Mechilta includes a list of items. Among them, he includes parah adumah (the laws of the red heifer.)
This is puzzling. The beginning of ...
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Why is there no Rashi on Maseches Nedarim, Nazir, most of Bava Basra etc?
A similar question asked "Which masechtot don't really have Rashi?" which proceeded to list the Masechtot (Nedarim, Nazir, Moed Kattan) & parts of Shas (most of Bava Basra, last 4 daf of Makkos) ...
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How to understand the first Rashi in the Torah?
How can we understand the first Rashi in the Torah?
בראשית. אָמַר רַבִּי יִצְחָק לֹֹֹֹֹא הָיָה צָרִיךְ לְהַתְחִיל אֶת הַתּוֹרָה אֶלָּא מֵהַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, שֶׁהִיא מִצְוָה רִאשׁוֹנָה ...
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Was there a parasha beginning at Exodus 18:21?
Rashi to Exodus 18:1 says that Yisro was also called
Yeser because he added (yasar) a parasha in the Torah: "And you see…" [from 18:21].
We don't have a parasha break before verse 21. Did ...
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Why does Rashi interpret Chizkiya’s dragging Achaz’s bones differently in different locations?
The Braisa says (Pesachim 56a, quoted as Mishnah 4:8):
תנו רבנן ששה דברים עשה חזקיה המלך על שלשה הודו לו ועל שלשה לא הודו לו גירר עצמות אביו על מטה של חבלים והודו לו [...]
The Rabbis taught: ...
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How can we say something is a machlokes Rashi vs Tosfos, if Rashi can't respond or defend himself?
Many Tosfos contain questions about what Rashi says, followed by them giving their own answer.
But how can we honestly say something is a "machlokes Rashi vs Tosfos" when Rashi doesn't get a chance ...
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Torah Genealogy not mentioning Childless people
In Shmuel 1, 17:12, the sons of Yishai are listed. There is a discrepancy between this count (of 7) and the textual statements that Yishai had 8 sons. Some meforshim explain this as because the 8th, ...
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Where in the writings of the Vilna Gaon does he discuss how Rashi & Tosfot each explain a Talmudic “sugiya?”
Two days ago, I asked this question in the name of the Vilna Gaon. I was informed that the answer may be [also] found in the writings of Rav Chaim Volozhin.
So, I re-phrased the question.
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What's the connection between Zimri and Korach, and the sale of Yosef and destruction of Shechem?
In Yaakov's blessings to his children, he says the following to Shimon and Levi:
Bereishis 49:6:
בְּסֹדָם֙ אַל־תָּבֹ֣א נַפְשִׁ֔י בִּקְהָלָ֖ם אַל־תֵּחַ֣ד כְּבֹדִ֑י כִּ֤י בְאַפָּם֙ הָ֣רְגוּ אִ֔ישׁ ...
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Why did the sea travelers in Yonah 1 proselytize instead of becoming righteous gentiles?
We read in Yonah 1 about the men who traveled on a boat with Yonah. When the sea ceased storming we read:
"And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they made sacrifices to the Lord and made vows."...
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According to Rashi, how old was Avraham at B'rit Bein HaB'tarim?
Rashi to Shemot 12:40 says that B'rit Bein HaB'tarim took place thirty years before the birth of Yitzchak (when Avraham was one hundred years old), meaning that Avraham was seventy years old at the ...
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Hundred like seventy and seventy like five
Rashi says on Bereshit 25:7 (Sefaria)
מאה שנה ושבעים שנה וחמש שנים A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE YEARS — (lit, a hundred years, and seventy years and five years) — at the age of one hundred years he ...
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Guests are masters?
Rashi to Genesis 19:2 said that Lot called the angels his masters because:
"וַיֹּאמֶר הִנֶּה נָּא־אֲדֹנַי סוּרוּ נָא אֶל־בֵּית עַבְדְּכֶם וְלִינוּ וְרַחֲצוּ רַגְלֵיכֶם וְהִשְׁכַּמְתֶּם ...
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Humility of Yoktan
Rashi (Bereishis 10:25) mentions the humility of Yoktan allowed him to merit 13 out of 70 nations.
ויקטן. שֶׁהָיָה עָנָו וּמַקְטִין עַצְמוֹ, לְכָךְ זָכָה לְהַעֲמִיד כָּל
הַמִּשְׁפָּחוֹת ...
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The claim that Yishmael repented when he was dying
I was reading ArtScroll' machzor's commentary to the Torah reading on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, which they say was taken from ArtScroll's Bereishis. After being told that Yishmael was dying, the ...
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Why does Rashi specifically tell us his interpretation method on 3:8?
In Bereishis 3:8, Rashi makes the following comment about his method of interpretation:
וישמעו. יֵשׁ מִדְרְשֵׁי אַגָּדָה רַבִּים וּכְבָר סִדְּרוּם רַבּוֹתֵינוּ עַל מְכוֹנָם בִּבְ"רַ וּבִשְׁאָר ...
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Obligation to accept Rabbinical sayings “על ימין שהוא שמאל”
To continue my scientific/Halachic exploration, I would like to summarize the approaches in one question that addresses the famous Rashi on Dvorim 17,11. I think this long and well-sourced question is ...
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Rashi's reason for juxtaposition of mitzvos insufficient
The Torah (Deuteronomy 22:6-11) describes 5 mitzvos consecutively, seemingly in random order (although the last three are indeed connected):
Sending away the mother bird
Building a fence on your roof
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וקמת ועלית - how did they measure Jerusalem's highest point?
On the Pasuk (Deut 17,8):
כִּי יִפָּלֵא מִמְּךָ דָבָר ... וְקַמְתָּ וְעָלִיתָ אֶל־הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר ה' א' בּוֹ׃
If a case is too baffling for you to decide, ... you shall promptly ...
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Rashis unknown family
Rashi in parshas Pinchos (Bamidbar 26,13) with regards to a son of Shimon which was missing from the previous count in Parshas Bamidbar quotes the Yerushalmi which addresses this question:
משפחת ...
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Reb Yitzhak's diamond, Rashi's birth - the source? [closed]
There's a famous story, mentioned here and in many other places – the legend of Reb Yitzhak's diamond. What's the source of this story?
Tizku lmitvois!
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Contradiction in Rashi regarding the travels of Bnei Yisrael
Rashi in Parshas Devarim (1:46) writes as follows:
ותשבו בקדש ימים רבים - י״ט שנה - כימים אשר ישבתם בשאר המסעות. והם היו ל״ח שנה, י״ט מהם עשו בקדש וי״ט שנה הולכים ומטורפים וחזרו לקדש, כמו שנאמר ...
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How a father is allowed to cause embarrassment to his underage daughter?
In Ketubot 40b the Gemara says that we see that the father gets his daughters (child) embarrassment and degradation payments from the fact that he can marry off his daughter to someone horrible, ...
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Where is there a rabbinical discussion or a mentioned in the TaNaKH about ethnic designation to mean “white” or “white person” or non-black person?
Where is there a rabbinical discussion or a mentioned in the TaNaKH about ethnic designation to mean "white" or "white person" or non-black person?
I am aware that there is an ethnic designation in ...
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Rashi Biographical Details [closed]
On Avodah Zarah 75a (dibur hamtchil "ולא פליגי"), Shabbos 85b ("בנוטה שורה לכאן ושורה לכאן"), Sukkah 40a ("ה"ג עצים דהסקה תנאי היא"), and Makkot 19b ("רישא במעשר שני טמא") there are personal comments ...
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Rashi, Tosfot - Dialects
Is there a name for the dialect of Hebrew/Aramaic that Rashi and Tosfot use? Have there been any articles and/or books published on how to systematically approach Rashi and the Baalei Tosfot's ...
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Why did the angel who destroyed Sodom have to visit Avraham? [duplicate]
רש"י בראשית \ וירא יח,ב
והנה שלשה אנשים אֶחָד לְבַשֵׂר אֶת שָׂרָה וְאֶחָד לַהֲפֹךְ אֶת סְדוֹם וְאֶחָד לְרַפְּאוֹת אֶת אַבְרָהָם, ... וּרְפָאֵל שֶׁרִפָּא אֶת אַבְרָהָם הָלַךְ מִשָּׁם לְהַצִּיל אֶת ...
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Unknown La'az in Teshuvot Rashi
In the Elfenbein (1943) edition of Teshuvot Rashi, in the teshuvot from Rashi to the rabbis of Auxerre ('סימן ג), Rashi writes "לשון דמות צלם" is "אאמיינדליי" in la'az. Elfenbein writes in his ...
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Which of Adam’s sons married which of his daughters?
According to Rashi to Bereishis 4:1-2, Kayin was born with a twin sister, and Hevel was born with two triplet sisters. As Rashi to Vayikra 20:17 explains, Kayin married his sister in order that the ...
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Zevulun or Yissachar: Who Goes First?
In Devarim 33:18 Rashi cites Breishit Rabbah 99:9 saying that Zevulun preceded Yissachar in receiving Moshe’s bracha because that shevet enabled Yissachar to learn Torah by providing for their ...
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Why does Rashi quote Vayikra 23:39 as the source for leap years?
Why does Rashi quote Vayikra 23:39 as the source for Ibur Shana ("מכאן שנצטוו לעבר את השנים"), as opposed to Devarim 16:1 quoted by the Rambam in Hilchos Kiddush Hachodesh 1:1 ("והשנים שאנו מחשבין הם ...
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If the Targum on the Torah written by Onkelus was given at Har Sinai, How can Rashi say that he made a mistake?
If the Targum on the Torah written by Onkelus was given at Har Sinai, How can Rashi say that he made a mistake?
See Gemara מגילה דף ג ע"א Megilla 3a:
ותרגום של תורה אונקלוס הגר אמרו? והא אמר רב ...
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Rashi Comment on Twins Tube with Pebbles
Rashi to Genesis 25:26
ואחרי כן יצא אחיו וגו’ צֵא וּלְמַד מִשְּׁפוֹפֶרֶת שְׁפִּיהָ קְצָרָה, תֶּן לָהּ שְׁתֵּי אֲבָנִים זוֹ אַחַר זוֹ, – הַנִּכְנֶסֶת רִאשׁוֹנָה תֵּצֵא אַחֲרוֹנָה וְהַנִּכְנֶסֶת ...
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Was Rashi a rebellious student?
In his commentary to the Talmud, Rashi usually just gives us a simple explanation of the word or phrase he is commenting on. However, every so often he quotes his teachers. It seems to me that when he ...
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Establishing the relative order of Rashi's commentaries
In learning Masekhet Ketubot, I encountered Rashi's definition of בי שמשי on daf 103a. There, since the passage is clearly referring to twilight on erev shabbat in particular, Rashi explains why so ...
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According to Rashi, why does Esther split up her argument?
At the beginning of Esther 7, Esther makes her plea for the Jewish people. Rashi (to v. 3) makes a very interesting comment:
וְעַמִּי. יִנָּתֵן לִי "בְּבַקָּשָׁתִי" שֶׁלֹּא יֵהָרְגוּ. וְאִם תּאמַר: ...
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Rashi contradiction in B.M. 95b-96a
The Gemarah in Bava Metziah 95b bring an argument of Amoraim between Abaye and Rava who base their respective opinions on the Tanaim Rav Yoshiya and Rav Yonasan. The Gemara tells how they hold of ...
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“The Rambam” vs Rashi
In every shiur I've heard, Gemarah or otherwise, when referring to Maimonides, the one giving the shiur says "The Rambam". But when speaking of Rashi, I've only heard someone say "Rashi". How did this ...
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Who wrote/compiled Rashi on the Rif
In Rashi on the Rif?, a number of questions are posed about this commentary, however, there is one big question still remaining:
Who actually wrote or compiled this Peirush? Was it Rashi himself, ...
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Question on Kiddushin 7a (Rashi)
On Kiddushin 7a, Rashi writes (d.h. וכן לענין ממונא) about 3 principles where monetary transactions are supported by either the din of the guarantor (ערב) or the din of the eved ca'ani, or by both ...
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What is the origin of the Rashi script?
I believe the script which is called "Rashi script" was invented to avoid using the normal Hebrew alphabet for things which weren't strictly Torah. Is this true?
If so - why are only TWO letters ...
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How Did Aharon Change Moshe's Words to Par'oh?
Moshe's message to Par'oh was to be communicated through Aharon, as per Sh'mot, 7:2
אַתָּ֣ה תְדַבֵּ֔ר אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲצַוֶּ֑ךָּ וְאַהֲרֹ֤ן אָחִ֙יךָ֙ יְדַבֵּ֣ר אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֔ה וְשִׁלַּ֥ח אֶת־...
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I'd love to but Hashem doesn't let
Rashi in parshas Kedoshim brings a Toras Kohanim:
רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר מִנַּיִן שֶׁלֹּא יֹאמַר אָדָם נַפְשִׁי קָצָה בִּבְשַׂר חֲזִּיר, אִי אַפְשַׁי לִלְבּוֹשׁ כִּלְאַיִם, אֲבָל יֹאמַר אַפְשַׁי ...
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Rasji quoting IBN-Saruq on the word 'keri'.
I found this explanation online:
Rashi quotes the 10th Century grammarian Menachem (ben IBN-Saruq), who
derives keri from a two-letter root k–r, meaning “prevent, refuse,
withhold.” Thus, ...
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Source for “Each word of Rashi worth gold”
Rashi is essential for every Torah study and his peirush surely has motivated many to seek the secrets of hebrew text. I recall heard many times that, after it was written (in times with no printing ...
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How to understand Rashi's sudden reminder of the Beis Din shel Matto
Rashi in Makkos 4b comments on the words עדים זוממין אין צריכין התראה (false witnesses do not need fore warning to receive punishment), as follows:
בכתובות אמרינן טעמא באלו נערות (דף לג.) נתרי בהו ...
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Counting and naming the stars
Why does Hashem count and name the stars in Heaven? This is mentioned in the first Rashi on Shemot, see below. I would like an explanation on this... Quote from Rashi: And these are the names of the ...
