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Summary

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel  Peace Prize, comes a magical audio book that introduces us to the towering  figure of Rashi-Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki-the great biblical and Talmudic  commentator of the Middle Ages.     Wiesel brilliantly evokes the  world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed  communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the  Crusades. The incomparable scholar Rashi, whose phrase-by-phrase explication  of the oral law has been included in every printing of the Talmud since the  fifteenth century, was also a spiritual and religious leader: His  perspective, encompassing both the mundane and the profound, is  timeless.    Wiesel's Rashi is a heartbroken witness to the suffering  of his people, and through his responses to major religious questions of the  day we see still another side of this greatest of all interpreters of the  sacred writings.     Both beginners and advanced students of the Bible rely on Rashi's groundbreaking  commentary for simple text explanations and Midrashic interpretations.  Wiesel, a descendant of Rashi, proves an incomparable guide who enables us to  appreciate both the lucidity of Rashi's writings and the milieu in which they  were formed.

Duration: about 2 hours (02:21:47)
Publishing date: 2011-03-04; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2011. Copyright Statment: —

• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Religion