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From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a marvelous book that introduces us to the imposing figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the excellent spiritual and Talmudic commentator of the Center Ages. Wiesel superbly evokes the world of ancient European Jewry, a world of serious students and shut towns ravaged by reactions of anti semitism and ruined by the Crusades. The unique student Rashi, whose phrase-by-phrase explication of the common law hasbeen contained in every publishing of the Talmud because the fifteenth century, was also a spiritual and religious head: His viewpoint, covering both mundane and the serious, is timeless.Wiesel’s Rashi is just a heartbroken experience to the suffering of his people, and through his reactions to main religious concerns of your day we discover another aspect of the best of interpreters of the sacred documents. Both beginners and advanced learners of the Bible depend on Rashi’s innovative discourse for Midrashic interpretations and easy text answers.