Capitolo 54
Spain famous in Jewish annalses, Rashi and his/her school you/they were developing, a
reputation destined to associate the Jewish culture with France. In France
there was no none of the ampleness of the culture that distinguished Spain. Rashi
doesn't shine as anything but an exponent of traditional Judaism. Him
not possessed any thanks of style, it didn't create new literature. But him
Judaism represented to his simpler, his/her more heat, his/her intensest. Rashi
it was a great writer because its subject was great, not because he wrote
greatly.
But it is only a half truth to affirm that Rashis it didn't have anybody thanks of style.
For, if grace is the quality of manufacturing effects with the least one
show of effort there was not then writer more graced of Rashi.
Necessarily its famous Commentary on the Talmud is long and tangled,
but there is not too much never a word. Any commentator on some classical never
Rashi overcome in the power to say enough and only enough. Him you owe
this faculty in the first place to his/her intellectual taking. He compiled the
Talmud as he/she explained him/it. He restored the original text with the
surer than critical instincts. And its conscience was in its job. Then
entirely honest it was him that, instead of pronouncing in indistinct way on the difficulties, him
frankly it said: "I cannot understand... I don't know", in the rare cases
in that he was to a loss. Rashi possessed besides that marvelous
understanding with author and reader to whom alone qualify a third mind
you interpret author to reader. Probing the depth of the Talmud, Rashi
probed the depth of the learned student, and realized the necessities of the
beginner. This way the for beginners finds useful Rashi and the expert
developed to him for help. His/her immediate disciples rarely quote him/it from name;
to them he is Commentator of "_the_."
Rashi was not the first one to submit the Talmud to the critical analysis. The
Gaonim had started the assignment and Nathan the child of Yechiel in Rome,,
compiled, in about the year 1000, a dictionary (_Aruch_) what still it is