Talk:Rashi

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thread_title:  Commentaries on Rashi`s commentary 

message: I reverted this page to a prior edit because of the worst kind of vandalism. Here is a selection of what was done to this page on 19:28, 24 August 2006 by an anonymous person from the I.p. address User:68.157.134.176. 
:The restatement of the defamatory remarks herein is further defamation. I believe that these quotations amount to graffiti, and, therefore, should be deleted immediately.--Lance6968 00:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever. You totally misundstood the basis for me posting the remarks! Did you honestly think I posted them as graffiti? Anyway, I have put in a request for this page to be protected from anonymous users. However, the administrators told me that the vandalism is not consistent enough to protect the page. So they told me to just keep on reverting the damage (which is a bunch of B.S.). (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 20:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism!!! 

message: The image shows Rashi reading a book. However, when he was alive, there were no books. Rashi read parchment scrolls.Lestrade 23:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Torah scrolls, probably, but the codex is a late antique invention. —Charles P._(Mirv) 05:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good thinking both you editors! :) The thing that strikes me in the picture is that Rashi is writing. A model we editors could copy. ;) Alastair Haines (talk) 08:11, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Anachronistic Image

message: This article should contain RASHI's contribution to the development of the French language.
--Lance6968 00:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What contribution would that be? Zsero 23:59, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  RASHI and the Development of the French Language 

message: In the movie "Lucky Number Slevin", there is a character with the same name, played by the actor, Ben Kingsley.
76.171.208.137 (talk) 09:35, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Movie Reference

message: This page has an extreme bias; this bias exists not so much in the information presented as in the phrasing. Someone who is politically (and religiously I suppose) neutral on this topic needs to go through this article with a fine tooth comb and squash the bias. Some more references would be nice as well. Right now the article is a little lacking in that area. Gopher65talk 00:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would help if you pointed out specific areas of the article that need work. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 10:41, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The entire article, from top to bottom. The tone of the article is similar to what I'd expect from, say, an Apple fanboi writing about the iPhone. Every sentence has intrinsic bias in the way it is constructed. As I said, it isn't so much the information in the article, it is the way that information is phrased. Gopher65talk 15:09, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  NPOV or not, do you really expect the articles on Albert Einstein and Adolf Hitler to read with the same tone?  -- Zsero (talk) 19:31, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ... yes, of course I do. Wikipedia is not an editorial, it is a repository of neutral facts. It is up to the reader to interpret those facts; it is not up to the writers to slant an article with tone. It is entirely possible to write an article on Einstein or Hitler without letting admiration or hatred show through. Remember: facts, not editorial. Leave the editorializing for the useless "professionals" at Faux Fox News and CNN. Gopher65talk 03:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NPoV

message: The claim that almost all Ashkenazim are descended from Rashi is not based on actual historical research, so much as on mathematical models showing that almost every Ashkenazi alive today is descended from almost every Ashkenazi of Rashi's day who had grandchildren.  That some Sefardim are also descended from Rashi should be no surprise at all, but the recently added blog post doesn't tell us anything about the importance of these particular desecendants.  So I've removed both claims.  -- Zsero (talk) 02:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this decision. Yoninah (talk) 09:08, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I find it very significant as in the genealogy world, almost everyone treis to trace their lineage through Rashi if they only can. Rashi came from Rabbi Gamliel who comes from king David. I've come across so many people who want to trace themselves to King David, and this claim that close to 80% of Ashkenazim come from Rashi would mean a lot to those seeking their ancestry. As far as the source to this, I hadn't paid attention that it was only a blog post, since you were not disputing the source but rather the significance, however if Berel Wien actually did write this, then that would be a good source and I think it should be in the article. Shlomke (talk) 20:35, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  All I can do is restate my objection above: as far as I can tell this claim, whether Wein said it or not, is not based on any actual historical research, but on a mathematical projection.  As such it is meaningless.  You want to be descended from Rashi, because of his alleged descent from Dovid?  Be my guest; but you may just as well make the claim to Davidic descent directly, since under the same theory almost all Jews alive today — and a good many non-Jews — are descended from Dovid.  Now if there were actual evidence for the claim, i.e. someone had shown not only that >80% of Ashkenazim ought to be descended from Rashi but that they actually are, that would be significant and should be in the article.  -- Zsero (talk) 21:12, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with you. If Berel Wein has actually stated this, even as a mathamatical projection, it would deserve to be in the article stated as such: a mathematical projection. However since the blog poster has not posted a source from Wein about this, this argument is futile. Shlomke (talk) 21:23, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope.  Even if we had clear proof that Wein said this, I would still object because it's not a statement about Rashi but about every 11th-century French Jew who had descendants.  Perhaps it would belong in History of the Jews in France, but not here.  -- Zsero (talk) 22:55, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Descendants 

message: :Category:Descendants of Rashi? Thoughts. Chesdovi (talk) 19:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category? 

message: Rashi is commonly called "ha-Kadosh". , plus many more sources. Please re-add cat. Chesdovi (talk) 13:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See also grave marker section which reads: "reads: …many Rishonim are buried here, among them Rabbi Shlomo, known as Rashi the Holy, may his merit protect us." Search also GB in Hebrew. Chesdovi (talk) 13:13, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''ha-Kadosh'' suffix 

message: That "neutral" doubt box is original research and should be removed quickly, in my view. It was done by someone who wrote biographies of Jews on Wiki eg Joel Sternfeld and purposely leaves out all of their Jewish art works and never mention that they are Jewish. The editor also has absolutely not one single iota of knowledge who Rashi was (the undoubtedly greatest, post Amorah, Jewish leader of all time, top 3 according to everyone). The reason it is original research is that no text criticizes RASHI, that I can find. Can you find one? Therefor a very positive article is eminently appropriate!!!! Obviously, he is not a controversial figure, to an antiSemite all Jews are controversial. AntiSemitism today has been replaced by antiReligious so called Haredi, and anti"Zionist" scapegoating (the 7 million Jews alive in Israel    ), RASHI is being branded with the original research broad "religious" brush, of today, therefor bad. Publish an anti-Rashi book if you want (there are none) do not soap box your ignorance on Wiki please, it is original research, in my view.Jhgtnlrs dnbtojn (talk) 11:33, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Jhgtnlrs dnbtojn's analysis. I took a look at the article and found some peacock phrasing that wasn't there when I last looked at this article, and which might have led someone to tag the article. I removed the non-neutral descriptions and removed the tag. The article could use more referencing to back up its statements and show non-Jews that Rashi really is as great as they say. Yoninah (talk) 14:45, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral? 

message: (Different question, since I don't know how to start a different category)
How about ambiguous too? I'm no scholar, but I ran across a commentary that told what Jarchi said about the "angel" that visited Hagar (Ishmael's mom), so I got nosy and wanted to find out who Jarchi was. That landed me to this wiki entry, but it never answered my question. If John Gill can say he got his info from Jarchi a couple of hundred years ago, then how did Jarchi stop being Jarchi? Simply telling me his other names doesn't clarify why he had so many names.
Honestly, it sounds like you're rewriting history to make a point. That may not be what's happening, but that's how a nonscholar like me is taking it. How about less ambiguous, so people researching who Jarchi is can figure out why he stopped being called that in the last couple of hundred years? The upside is a more thorough article.
98.115.150.131 (talk) 17:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Other names he has been known by historically are at Rashi#Name.  I have now also added a disambiguation to the top of the Jarchi article, which is about a village of that name in Iran.--Pharos (talk) 21:47, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguous - Jarchi 

message: I have found a living descendent of Rashi. His name is Jeffrey Mark Paull. Here is the URL where I found out about him: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/blog/noble-heritage-history-legacy-polonsky-paull-family-america/.
Anonymous173.57.37.138 (talk) 06:43, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a great many people claiming descent from Rashi (usually via the Luria family), as discussed at length in many works of rabbinical genealogy, so Mr. Paull's case is hardly worth mentioning. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 01:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Living Descendents 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Sefaria has a full 80 different texts written by Rashi (counting each book of Tanach, Talmud, Teshuvot Rashi and Issur veHeter leRashi.), some of them in multiple languages.
Probably most relevant to the English speaking world is the text for two complete English translations of Rashi on Torah - the Silbermann edition, which is Public domain, and the Metsudah edition, which was release with a CC-BY license.  It also has the vowelized Hebrew from the Silbermann edition.
I believe that a link to this would fall under section 2 of WP:ELYES.
I have a COI (I work for Sefaria), and have discussed it on WikiProject:Judaism.  Other similar edit requests have been approved. 
Here are the links to the text of his Torah commentaries - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Given that there's a bunch of other works available as well, perhaps the link should be to his author page? Rashi.  I'm not sure which is best.
LevEliezer (talk) 17:39, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't see a specific request for what is proposed to be either removed or added to the article. Please consider the following as an example for how to submit future requests:
 Proposed Changes 
Current text                                                         	Replace with
In 2008, the Prime Minister remarked that she would not leave office.	The Prime Minister left office in 2008.
The Prime Minister was in office until 2010.                         	(delete)
(blank space)                                                        	The Prime Minister resigned during her press conference.
Regards,
 Spintendo  ᔦᔭ  20:56, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Edit - Public Domain and CC-BY Hebrew & English Texts 

message: Following up on the above, I'd like to reopen the request.  The details as above remain the same, here's a tighter presentation of the change:
 Proposed Changes 
Add to External Links
Public Domain Hebrew and CC-BY English of [Rashi on Torah]
LevEliezer (talk) 18:42, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for following up. Your request has been implemented. Regards,  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ  19:10, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Dec 7 2017 edit request

message: Where is the source of this info from? AFAICS it's not in Maurice Liber's book. We do know the definite death date as found in a Siddur from the time, but not of the year of birth (due to two understandings of the years he lived). But afaik, there is no further information, anywhere about Rashi's birth. The date is listed here almost since the beginning of this article in 2004 by User:Magpark no user page. I added a talk page asking him/her. BTW my English name is Maurice and my English birtheday is Feb 21! Moshe פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 01:15, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date Feb 22 ?! 

message: A new paragraph about Rashi's works that were supposedly written in Old French was just added to the lead of the article. But since the entire article currently does not seem to mention any works by Rashi that were written in Old French, this addition would need to be first verified against other sources that are currently used in the article.
If indeed there were such works, then this linguistic addition would go into the "Works" section, not straigth into the lead. This is just my opinion, in a preliminary note, without having the time right now to check the entire issue more in depth. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 23:09, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rashi's works in Old French? 

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