Jewish comic book heroI accidentally posted these last two posts on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog for a few minutes. Apologies.
By NETANYA HOFFMAN (Jerusalem Post)
Rashi Hakadosh: A Light after the Dark Ages
By Rabbi Berel Wein
Mahrwood Press
64 pages; $14.95
If your teenager is a Jewish history buff (or if you would like him to be), Rashi Hakadosh: A Light after the Dark Ages may be just for him. Produced by scholar, historian, educator and Jerusalem Post columnist Rabbi Berel Wein and written by J. Cogan and Aryeh Mahr, this comic book about the life of 11th-century talmudic scholar Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki comes as a companion to other comic books on the lives of Maimonides and Shmuel Hanagid. Rashi's analysis is the most widely read Torah commentary, and he spent his life making the Torah and Talmud accessible to the layman.
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Friday, December 07, 2007
CAN'T MAKE IT UP -- A COMIC BOOK ON RASHI: