THE 900th ANNIVERSARY of Rashi's death is this Friday, 5 August. The Jewish community of Louisville, Kentucky, will be commemorating him this year. I'm sure will see more about Rashi commemorations in the coming week.

Events honor key Jewish scholar

Special to The [Louisville] Courier-Journal

The Louisville Jewish community is commemorating the life of one of Judaism's most influential thinkers with a yearlong slate of special events that organizers are calling "The Community-wide Rashi Project."

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, or Rashi for short, was an 11th-century Jewish scholar from Troyes, France, whose writings revolutionized the contextual reading of the Tanakh, the Jewish Bible, and the Talmud, the repository of Jewish law and lore. Rashi died on Aug. 5, 1105, so Friday will mark the 900th yahrtzeit, or anniversary of his death.

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