(RaSH’I). Likutei HaPardess.

SHLOMO BEN YITZCHAK

Solomon ben Joseph Proops

Amsterdam

1715

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1050.

Compiled at the beginning of the 12th century, not by Rashi himself - but by Shemayah, his pupil, although the work contains a large number of Rashi’s decisions and responsa. It focuses upon the entire field of religious law with only a few remarks on certain aspects of civil law. It contains selections form Gaonic Responsa and other Codes as well as Midrashic texts. Waxman suggests the inclusion of such texts in a Code may be explained by the fact that “copies of such texts were rare, and the author who possessed them thought it worthwhile to preserve them for future generations.” See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature, Vol. I p. 303.