How One Man Changed Talmudic and Biblical Study For EVERYONE 

Rashi's works are one of my favs. Can't wait to get my Torah with Rashi's comprehensive commentaries. Baruch HaShem y'all.

One of the intellectual giants of history. And we lament we don’t have time to do things.

To study the Torah, one has to read between the lines. When studying the Tanach properly, questions should arise. And when those questions are answered the answers should cause more questions to arise. One can not achieve wisdom without questioning everything.

I love what was presented and how it was presented. It made me hungry to learn more: more about Rashi, more about Talmud, and more about Torah, not to mention more about history of that period in which Rashi lived. Kol hakavod!

Thank you Rabbi Woolf for presenting such an amazingly concise and authoritative introduction to Rashi. This shiur perfectly fits JLI's stated mission. I am inspired to learn more!!

This is a great introduction to Rashi. I would love to have more videos exploring these ideas in depth. For instance, an exploration of Rashi's commentary where it is intended to convey a "Jewish" perspective on Scripture in opposition to Christian interpretation.

What an amazing person

I liked your Rashi Story . First you mentioned that you don’t know about his Parents . I do know the Stoy of his mother . I was living in France for many many years , and his Mother was pregnant and walking in very narrow street , and suddenly a carrosse with horse almost hit her and hit the wall saving his Mother life and the wall still have a bad impacts cracks on the wall . Saving the pregnant mother carried her son Rashi with Hashem Miracle .i visited the Street Wall many times , and the crack on the wall still there in Troy’s ( France ) near Metz and the German border .

This guy is the real deal including the beard dandruff. Good stuff!

Amazing and inspiring!

Nice presentation

Thank you

I'm a Catholic Christian. Mishnah and gemara are not our tradition but in a broader way this is good information on our western intellectual tradition and I want to know about it. Great presenter.

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Blessed his memory.

I can change Talmudic study forever. Here is the truth about the Bible. UFOs are on God's side and are described all over the Bible. The ancient used semantic and called the spaceships, clouds, pillars, chariots and glory. The Bible talks about “clouds” going up and down with people going in and out (Exodus 24:18 - Moses entered the cloud). Clouds do not make those movements described in the Bible, but spaceships do. Jesus ascended in a “cloud” (Acts 1:9). God rides in a “cloud” (Isaiah 19:1, Psalm 104:3). Jesus will come back “with” the “clouds” (Mat 26:64, Rev 1:7). Jesus will come back commanding a fleet of starships. The church will be raptured “in” the “clouds” (I Thess. 4:17). Spaceships will be used to rapture the church. The ancient did not have vocabulary or knowledge to understand what they saw so they called the flying objects “clouds”, “chariots”, and “pillars”, because were the words they had to describe something flying in the sky. The Bible even tells in Psalm 68:17 how many spaceships are in the fleet “The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands” (about 20,000). There is a good research done by Patrick Cooke called “The Great Deception - The Bible UFO Connection” which has the original words describing spaceships. It is all over the Bible. Jesus is real. He is the savior of the world, but He is not seating in a puffy cloud. He is commanding a powerful army, which will take control of our planet and stop all wars. The Jews had contact with beings from another planetary system called The Elohim, commanded by The Most High God. The Elohim had to have a special covenant with humans to be able to save our planet from destruction. They got the agreement with the Jews, but the Jews were not faithful to the agreement so The Most High God sent Jesus to make a new covenant and have legal rights to save our planet from destruction. The Jews made a covenant with beings from another planetary system. Psalm 82:1-6 says that God presides over a great assembly. Something like a federation of planets. If you want to confirm what I am saying just look at a painting made in 1710 by someone that had access to the secret archives of the Vatican. Look at the paint " The Baptism of Christ" by Aert de Gelder. Now that we know more about science, we can understand the descriptions in the Bible. They described high technology but didn't have words to express. When they saw spaceships with strong lights they called "glory”. The "glory" of God was a spaceship with lights. In the interplanetary law the price to save us was innocent blood. That is why Jesus had to die for us. He was fulfilling a legal requirement. Put your knees on the floor and surrender your life to Jesus.

If Rafi "accomplished all that," why do the vast majority of people, including the majority of Jews not know anything about him? Edit: I was courteously told that I typed "Rafi" not "Rashi." I appreciate the correction.

Baruch Hashem for his great tzadiks

The problem I find with the Talmud are the repeated contradictions with the written Torah by Moshe, for example prohibition of eating meat and milk together BRSH’T 18:7-8 This is just one example. The biggest and greatest authority is with the written Torah given to Moshe by Elohim and it also says in Debarim 4:2 not to add or delete from the written Torah. Most of the rabbis opinions is either adding or deleting from it. Shalom Alechem

French Jews at the time were Ashkenazic? I thought they were Sephardic. French Jews would have migrated from northern Africa, where they lived after being expelled from Eretz Yisroel by the Romans. Or at least that is what I was told.

MOSHE prophesied unto ONE PROPHET/ RABBI to come and for ALL to SUBJECT ourselves unto. DEVARIM 18. 15. ALL know that PROPHET is YSHUAH HAMASSIACH. HE fulfilled all PROPHECIES in the TANACH about BERESHEET 3. 15

Read with eyes wide open....Isiah 53

Jesus I seek you everyday. Even when I feel like giving up. I will keep faith. As a single mother. I’m struggling to make ends meet. My husband passed years ago. I have no one to turn to but you Lord JESUS. Both of my sons are special needs and require so much from me. Lord I’m afraid. Every month I struggle trying to provide for my children struggling to pay rent and to buy groceries. God you have provided this far. Lord hear my prayers.

Don't use the word impact when the better word is influence or affect.

And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 11:9 ​ ​Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. Daniel 9:11-12 Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:1 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Nahum 3:4-6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ezekiel 5:8 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:13-14 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? Exodus 32:21 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. Nehemiah 9:30 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, they turn aside the poor in the gate. Amos 5:12 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Zechariah 1:4 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed her. Lamentations 4:6 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Isaiah 1:4-5 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Micah 3:8-10 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shat say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, not be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. Ezekiel 2:3-7 We have sinned, and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Daniel 9:5 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Amos 3:1-2 O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Hosea 14:1 The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Zechariah 1:2 ​ But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. Lamentations 5:22 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nehemiah 9:33

You all have to join the military now.

As a Judaic Christian, it saddens me that my Jewish brothers and sisters don’t accept Jesus is Messiah. We are saved by faith and this is not of our own doing that no one should boast.

So much time, so much effort, so much intellect, wasted over so many centuries over such obvious nonsense. It's tragic.

Tanakh has many differences and contradictions with dead sea scrolls. Who is described in Isaiah 42? Isa as (Jesus) is Messiah and Muhammad (saw) is the final prophet of God. He preached exactly what Moses, Jesus, David, Solomon and other prophets of God taught to the people. That our God is one God and true life is life after death.