Capitolo 55
the standard job of reference. But the nearest predecessor of Rashi,
Alfassi, was not an expounder of the Talmud; he extracted, with a lot
the ability, the practical results from the logical labyrinths in which they was
wound. Isaac, the child of Jacob Alfassi deduced his/her name from Fez,
where he was born in 1013. He gave completely his/her intellect to the Talmud,
but he acquired from the Moorish culture of his/her day a sense of order and
system. He exclusively treated with the _Halachah_, or contained practical
of the Rabbinic law and the guide that he compiled soon to the Talmud
replaced all the preceding jobs of his/her kind. Solomon, the child of Isaac,
more known as _R_abbi _Sh_elomo _Iz_chaki (Rashi), it was born in 1040, and
died in 1105, in Troyes, in Champagne. From his/her mother of what a came
poets' family, he inherited his/her warm humanity, his/her love for the Judaism.
From his/her father, he drew his/her knowledge of Talmudical his/her acute intellect.
Its youth was a hard. In agreement with medieval custom, he was,
him gotten married as a boy, and then he/she left rather his/her house in search of knowledge
what of bread. Of bread he had few, but, it starved and it tightened in
circumstances although he was, he became an anxious student to the Hebrew
schools that then they were punctuated along the Rhine, while now residing to Mainz,
now to Speyer, now to Worms. In 1064 he finally established in Troyes. Here
he immediately was greeted as a new light in Israel. His/her immaculate character
and its unique reputation as a teacher attracted an enormous number of anxious
students.
Of the Commentary of Rashi on the Talmud anything has already been said. As
to his/her exposure of the Bible, it acquired soon the widest popularity.
It was at work inferior his/her on the Talmud, for, as him he admitted
in later life, he had confided too much on the Midrash, and you/he/she had frequented
too much few to evolving the literal meaning of the text of Sacred writings. But
this is the charm of his/her book, and it is fortunate that he didn't do