Editing Rashi (section)

===Birth and early life===
Rashi was an only child born at [[Troyes]], [[County of Champagne|Champagne]], in northern France. His mother's brother was [[Simeon bar Isaac]], rabbi of [[Mainz]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/rabbinic/infofiles/avotaynu.htm |title=Index to Articles on Rabbinic Genealogy in ''Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy'' |access-date=2008-06-11 |website=Avotaynu |archive-date=2023-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603103922/https://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/infofiles/avotaynu.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[[s:he:שבת פה ב#רש"י|Shabbat 85b]]: "And I found support on the foundation of Rabbi Simon the Elder, my mother's brother."</ref> Simon was a disciple of [[Gershom ben Judah]],<ref>See Rashi's comments in ''[[Shabbat (Talmud)|Shabbat]]'' 85b.</ref> who died that same year. On his father's side, Rashi has been claimed to be a 33rd-generation descendant of [[Johanan HaSandlar]],<ref name=heilprin/> who was a fourth-generation descendant of [[Gamaliel]],  who was reputedly descended from the [[Davidic line]].<ref name=heilprin>{{Cite web|title=Rabbi Yehiel Ben Shlomo Heilprin - (Circa 5420-5506; 1660-1746)|url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112344/jewish/Rabbi-Yehiel-Ben-Shlomo-Heilprin.htm|access-date=2020-06-28|website=www.chabad.org|language=en|archive-date=2020-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628203224/https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112344/jewish/Rabbi-Yehiel-Ben-Shlomo-Heilprin.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In his voluminous writings, Rashi himself made no such claim at all. The main early rabbinical source about his ancestry, Responsum No. 29 by [[Solomon Luria]], makes no such claim either.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hurwitz |first=Simon |author-link=Solomon Luria |title=The Responsa of Solomon Luria |language=en| year=1938 |location=New York, New York |pages=146–151}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Can We Prove Descent from King David?|journal=Avotaynu|year=1992|first=David|last=Einsiedler|volume=VIII|issue=3(Fall)|page=29|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/journal/descent.htm|access-date=2008-06-11|archive-date=2023-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203172425/https://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/journal/descent.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>