Soon after his mother, Rebbetzin Chana, passed away in 1964, the Rebbe started explaining in detail at every Shabbos farbrengen one or more comments by Rashi. By 1992, the number of comments he had ...

But it wasn’t always this way. Before the age of print, Torah texts were scarce, fragile, and painstakingly copied by hand. Even the most foundational works, such as Rashi’s commentary, circulated in ...

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What do we learn from Rashi? Several daya ago we commemorated the passing of Rashi, the greatest Torah commentator, who lived in France. We can learn much Torah from him, of course, but we should also ...

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Sara Japhet and Robert B. Salters, two highly respected scholars’ editing and translation of Rashbam’s commentary on Qoheleth (also spelled Kohelet, Ecclesiastes in English) is excellent. Rashbam was ...

There are points in our lives where after years of striving and struggles, we yearn for an oasis in time to rest .One craves the time to enjoy achievements, family and wisdom gleaned from life's ...

Rashi was born in Troyes, France and died in the same town on July 13, 1105, at the age of 65. The date of his passing on the Jewish calendar, the 29th of Tammuz, falls on Friday, August 5, this year.

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