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in full Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi born 1040, Troyes, Champagne died July 13, 1105, Troyes Medieval French commentator on the Bible and the Talmud. He studied in the schools of Worms and Mainz and became a local Jewish leader in the valley of the Seine 1065. His influential writings on the Bible examined the literal meaning of the text and used allegory, parable, and symbolism to analyze its nonliteral meaning. His landmark commentary on the Talmud is a classic introduction to biblical and postbiblical Judaism
{i} Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak (1040-1105), author of influential Biblical and Talmudic commentaries

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Rashi script
special style of writing developed and used by Rashi (medieval French Jewish commentator on the Bible)