Editing Rashi (section)

===Yeshiva studies===
[[Image:V10p325001 Rashi Synagogue.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Rashi Shul|Rashi Synagogue]], [[Worms, Germany|Worms]]]]
According to tradition, Rashi was first brought to learn Torah by his father on [[Shavuot]] day at the age of five. His father was his main Torah teacher until his death when Rashi was still a youth. At the age of 17 he married and soon after went to learn in the [[yeshiva]] of [[Yaakov ben Yakar]] in [[Worms, Germany|Worms]], returning to his wife three times yearly, for the [[Days of Awe]], [[Passover]] and [[Shavuot]]. When Yaakov died in 1064, Rashi continued learning in Worms for another year in the yeshiva of his relative, [[Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi]], who was also chief rabbi of Worms. Then he moved to [[Mainz]], where he studied under another of his relatives, Isaac ben Judah, the rabbinic head of Mainz and one of the leading sages of the [[Lorraine (province)|Lorraine]] region straddling France and Germany.

Rashi's teachers were students of [[Rabbeinu Gershom]] and [[Eliezer Hagadol]], leading Talmudists of the previous generation. From his teachers, Rashi imbibed the oral traditions pertaining to the Talmud as they had been passed down for centuries, as well as an understanding of the Talmud's  logic and forms of argument. Rashi took concise, copious notes from what he learned in yeshiva, incorporating this material in his commentaries. He was also greatly influenced by the exegetical principles of [[Menahem Kara]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Grossman|first=Avraham|title=4. Menahem ben Helbo|date=2000-11-12|url=https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/abs/10.13109/9783666535079.331|work=Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. I: From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (Until 1300). Part 2: The Middle Ages|volume=Band 001|pages=331–332|series=Hebrew Bible / Old Testament|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|doi=10.13109/9783666535079.331|isbn=978-3-525-53507-3|access-date=2020-06-17|archive-date=2022-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808030739/https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/abs/10.13109/9783666535079.331|url-status=live}}</ref>