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Rabbi Shlomo of Troyes, 1040-1104, and his works

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What did Rashi's comment on 1 Samuel 18:1 regarding a maskil being directed to an interpreter?

It's from the Talmud, Pesachim 117a: "...״מַשְׂכִּיל״ — עַל יְדֵי תּוּרְגְּמָן..." "...Psalms that begin with the word maskil were delivered by means of a disseminator, a spokesman in a public addres …
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Why did people under 100 die in the mabul?

Etz Yosef on the midrash brought by Rashi: שראוי לעונשים שכן היה השיעור קודם מתן תורה (רש"י בחומש ועי' בנזה"ק) ואע"ג דבמבול מתו גם הקטנים. …
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How did Rashi know Ben-Temalion was a small shed (שד)?

Rashi there writes: "בן תמליון - שד שקורין נוטיו"ן". Translation: Ben-Temalion - a type of shed called a "nutiun". According to this list of la'azei Rashi: "nutiun - little demon". … How did Rashi know that Ben-Temalion was a little shed? …
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Pseudo-Rashi on the third scroll in the Temple

Pseudo-Rashi on Divrei Hayamim 1:8:29 writes: "...This is what is explained at the end of Megillath Yerushalmi. … Menachem Zahari in his book "Mekorot Rashi - Divrei Hayamim" used a version - which he doesn't appear to name, as far as I can tell - which reads ספר האהים. …
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Rashi with sources in context

There's Chumash Rashi Ha'Shalem by Mosdot Ariel (link). Also available on Otzar Hachochmah. Here's an example of one page: …
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Inverted Nun in Haran?

Rashi did indeed have a different Mesorah, as well as many other Jews. …
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Torah Genealogy not mentioning childless people

Translation: "Otzem the sixth David the seventh, Rashi here asked why didn't he count Elihu the eighth, and in Rashi in the Prophet Shmuel 17:12 he wrote that this may be reconciled that one died childless … And especially as according to Rashi he died without sons, and for this he didn't merit to be a head of a clan because he didn't have sons." …
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King Zecharia; A Court of His Own?

to Yehu and the Nodah B'yehudah agreed with what they said, I find this to be quite wondrous in my eyes how they missed the gemara from Gittin...as it is said there Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said...and Rashi … So according to Rabbi Danzig, Rashi meant that Zecharyah wasn't really considered a king or part of Yehu's royal lineage and as such, excluded him. …
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Why did Naphtali name his first son Yachtzeal (יַחֲצִיאֵל)?

As to why Rashi brings "Yachtze'el", that's because he brought an example of someone whose father was named Naftali and Yachtze'el was Naftali's eldest. … Perhaps the question should be how did Rashi get from someone named Yosef ben Shimon to someone named Yachtze'el ben Naftali? …
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Source for Rashi's claim that some nations worshiped dust?

Rashi brings the idea from the gemara in Bava Metzia 86b: "The Gemara continues its analysis of the verse: “Let now a little water be fetched and wash your feet” (Genesis 18:4). …
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How and why does a Jubilee year cause Rosh Hashanah to take place on the 10th day of the month?

According to Menachem Zohari in his series of books on the sources of Rashi's commentary on Tanach, "Mekorot Rashi", in the book on Yechezkel, Rashi's sources for this commentary are: The Talmud in Erchin …
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When did עבודה זרה start?

Actually, verse 26 says it started earlier. Compare the lineages of Shet and Kayin and you'll find that Enosh was born a number of generations before Lemech's children: (from here) Though the Torah d …
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Who wrote Rashi on Chronicles I & II, Nehemiah, Ruth, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes?

Translation: "And in Seder Hadorot p. 177 he wrote that in the commentary on Iyov that we have he mentions Rashi and therefore also the commentary on Iyov was not written by Rashi." … That means that those commentators were aware that the commentary was not by Rashi. …
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What is the historic background to the first Rashi?

Many believe that this is a reference to Rashi's father (as suggested for example by the Ta"z in the name of an unknown supercommentary on Rashi), while others think it's a reference to one of Rashi's … Gevaryahu, 'Rashi and the First Crusade: Commentary, Liturgy, Legend', Judaism 48 (1999), p. 2 (in the PDF link). 2 For more information on non-Jewish sources that reference this tradition, see Anthony …
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