Editing Rashi (section)

==Name==
Rashi's surname, Yitzhaki, derives from his father's name, Yitzhak. The acronym "Rashi" stands for '''Ra'''bbi '''Sh'''lomo '''Y'''itzhaki, but is sometimes fancifully expanded as '''Ra'''bban '''Sh'''el '''Y'''Israel which means the "Rabbi of Israel", or as '''Ra'''bbenu '''SheY'''ichyeh (Our Rabbi, may he live). He may be cited in Hebrew and Aramaic texts as (1) "Shlomo son of Rabbi Yitzhak", (2) "Shlomo son of Yitzhak", (3) "Shlomo Yitzhaki", and myriad similar highly respectful derivatives.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=HaCohen-Kerner |first1=Yaakov |last2=Schweitzer |first2=Nadav |last3=Mughaz |first3=Dror |year=2011 |title=Automatically Identifying Citations in Hebrew-Aramaic Documents |journal=Cybernetics and Systems |volume=42 |issue=3|pages=180–197 |doi=10.1080/01969722.2011.567893 |s2cid=40235689 |quote=For example, the Pardes book written by Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, known by the abbreviation Rashi, can be cited using the following patterns: (1) "Shlomo son of Rabbi Yitzhak", (2) "Shlomo son of Yitzhak", (3) "Shlomo Yitzhaki", (4) "In the name of Rashi who wrote in the Pardes}}</ref>

In older literature, Rashi is sometimes referred to as ''Jarchi'' or ''Yarhi'' ({{Script/Hebrew|ירחי}}), his abbreviated name being interpreted as '''R'''abbi '''Sh'''lomo '''Y'''arhi. This was understood to refer to the Hebrew name of [[Lunel, Hérault|Lunel]] in [[Provence]], popularly derived from the [[Occitan language|occitan]] ''luna'' "moon", in Hebrew {{Script/Hebrew|ירח}},<ref>{{cite book |last=Ockley |first=Simon |year=1707 |title=History of the Present Jews Throughout the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpc9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA74 |page=74}}</ref> in which Rashi was assumed to have lived at some time<ref>{{cite book |last=Abraham |first=Philip |year=1879 |title=Curiosities of Judaism |publisher=By and for the author |url=https://archive.org/details/curiositiesjuda00abragoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/curiositiesjuda00abragoog/page/n57 2]}}</ref> or to have been born, or where his ancestors were supposed to have originated.<ref>{{cite book |year=1857 |title=The Literary Churchman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gc4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA286 |page=286}}</ref> Later Christian writers [[Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]]<ref name="google">{{cite book|language=fr|title=Histoire critique du Vieux Testament|author=Simon, R.|date=1685|publisher=chez Reinier Leers|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_AjVF5yTpfCQC|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_AjVF5yTpfCQC/page/n588 545]|access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref> and [[Johann Christoph Wolf]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolf |first=Johann Christoph | year=1715 |chapter=R. Schelomo ben Isaac |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQIVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1057 |title=Bibliotheca Hebræa |language=la |volume=1 |location=Hamburg & Leipzig |pages=1057–1058|lccn=01010257}}</ref> claimed that only Christian scholars referred to Rashi as Jarchi, and that this epithet was unknown to the Jews. [[Bernardo de Rossi]], however, demonstrated that Hebrew scholars also referred to Rashi as Yarhi.<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Histoire littéraire de la France: Treizième siècle|author1=Benedictinos. Congregación de Santo Mauro (Francia)|author2=Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Francia)|author3=Treuttel et Wü rtz (Estrasburgo)|date=1824|language=fr|volume=16|publisher=Firmin Didot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQBbc1vhiysC&pg=PA337|page=337|access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref> In 1839, [[Leopold Zunz]]<ref name="google3">{{cite book|language=de|title=Israelitische Annalen|date=1839|publisher=J.D. Sauerländer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6EXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA328|page=328|access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref> showed that the Hebrew usage of Jarchi was an erroneous propagation of the error by Christian writers, instead he interpreted the abbreviation as: '''R'''abbi '''Sh'''lomo '''Y'''itzhaki. The evolution of this term has been thoroughly traced.<ref name="Gruber2007">{{cite book|author=Mayer I. Gruber|title=Rashi's Commentary on Psalms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nsl2NrA6v6gC&pg=PA1|date=10 October 2007|publisher=Jewish Publication Society|isbn=978-0-8276-0872-6|pages=1–}}</ref><ref name="Kitto1876">{{cite book|author=John Kitto|title=A Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/cyclopaediaofbib03kitt|year=1876|publisher=Black|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cyclopaediaofbib03kitt/page/643 643]–}}</ref>