The House of Rashi - #30

centuries and it produced the great Tosafot, the additional commentaries of the Talmud which are always printed on the other side of the page opposite the commentary of Rashi. Just to imagine Rashi - if you took parchment, a quill and ink and wrote by hand all that he wrote, it would take you years and years to do it and he wrote three editions, worked on it over and over again. And you cannot imagine that Rashi lived in a great ivory tower. He lived during the first Crusade, a time of ...