Journey to France: Troyes - Legends of Rashi and his Family

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

jewish thought so there's a there's a statement that's attributed to rav miller ninety percent of good olympic stories never happened and i like to add and even that story rav miller never said that either but so you have to understand that condolence stories is not torah messinai we don't know exactly did they happen did they not happen it's not really important whether they happen the point is if you want to get a feel if you want to have a picture for who the person was and what people thought about them so you get a little bit of a feel how people consider them based on the stories that they say and someone of the caliber of the personality of rashi there's no there's no doubt that there must be some special legend about the way rashi was born you can have a personage the caliber of rashi be born on their natural circumstances so the fact that we have this legend means uh the esteem that the jewish people have for rashi so rashi's father contrary to popular uh opinion some want to say that rabino yitzhak the father of rashi was not a learned scholar and that's why rashi wanted to honor him by opening up his comments allah torah amarava yitzhak rashi's father's name was rabbit that's why rashu is called from but in fact rabino yitzhak was a great scholar rashi cites him in zara but rabino yitzhak was a jeweler and

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1. 0:32jewish thought so there's a there's a statement that's attributed to rav miller ninety percent of…
2. 1:35contrary to popular uh opinion some want to say that rabino yitzhak the father of rashi…
3. 2:35this great dilemma how could he heaven forbid provide a jewel for the eye of an…
4. 3:38rashi's household and we're going to talk about rashi was a torah dynasty that existed for…
5. 4:38says we're the greatest of all the we shine him if i were to ask you…
6. 5:43had a son the sixth generation from rashi the redactor of taisus and masek…
7. 6:45post graduate school to learn how to make an x to sign his name so that…
8. 7:45will be the son-in-law of the based rashi and that night she's crying she's weeping even…
9. 8:47ill manner this is the legend that's reported in all of the biographies of rashi has…
10. 9:49on it the entire day and it came time for minha sarashi went into minha and…

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