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Rashi

The Commentator

Jewish Pedagogy, plain-sense exegesis (peshat), accessibility
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Combat
ATK 25
DEF 75
SPR 88
SPD 60
INT 96
Rank Rishon / Standard commentator on Tanakh and Talmud
Domain Pedagogy, plain-sense exegesis (peshat), accessibility
Alignment Holy / Rabbinic
Weakness His era's Crusader violence killed three of his daughters' husbands and devastated Rhineland Jewry
Key Act Wrote the standard medieval commentary on the entire Hebrew Bible and nearly the entire Babylonian Talmud. To this day, virtually every printed Talmud page has Rashi's commentary in a distinctive script down the inner margin. He made the Talmud teachable
Source Rashi's commentaries on Tanakh and Talmud (composed ~1080-1105)

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki of Troyes (1040-1105) is the bridge between the Talmud and every Jew who has ever opened one since. His daughters Yocheved, Miriam, and Rachel were also learned — Rashi reportedly let them lay tefillin, scandalous for the era. The “Rashi script” used to typeset his commentary is now the default for printed rabbinic literature.


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