Yitzhaki Tzarfati Rashi Shlomo Ben Isaac

Rabbi, The outstanding Torah commentator of the middle ages, Rabbi and Av Beit Din, Jewish Community of Troyes, Troyes, France

RASHI (RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki) of the first comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh. His commentary on the Talmud, which covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud (a total of 30 tractates), has been included in every edition of the Talmud since its first printing by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520s. On his father\'s side, Rashi has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of Yochanan Hasandlar, who was a fourth-generation descendant of Gamaliel the Elder, who was reputedly descended from the royal house of King David. In his voluminous writings, Rashi himself made no such claim at all. The main early rabbinical source about his ancestry, Responsum No. 29 by Solomon Luria, makes no such claim either.