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4. BERESHIT RABRAH. - The commentary on <I>Bereshit Rabbah</I>.
According to A. Epstein (<I>Magazin</I> of Berliner, xiv.
<I>Ha-Hoker</I> I), this commentary, incorrectly printed (the
first time at Venice, 1568), is composed of two different
commentaries. The basis of the first is the commentary of
Kalonymos ben Sabbatai, of Rome; the second is anonymous and
of later date. A third commentary exists in manuscript, and
is possibly of the school of Rashi.
Mention should be made of a commentary on the Thirtytwo Rules
by R. Jose ha-Gelili, attributed to Rashi and published in the
<I>Yeshurun</I> of Kobak.
5. RESPONSA. - The <I>Responsa</I> of Rashi have not becn gathered
together into one collection. Some Responsa mixed with some of
his decisions occur in the compilations already cited and in
the following Halakic compilations: <I>Eben ha-Ezer</I> by
Eliezer ben Nathan (Prague, 1670), <I>Or Zarua</I> by Isaac
ben Moses of Vienna (I-II. Zhitomir, 1862; III-V, Jerusalem,
1887), <I>Shibbole ha-Leket</I> by Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw
(Wilna, 1887, ed. Buber), <I>Mordecai</I>, by Mordecal ben
Hillel (printed together with Rif), <I>Responsa</I> by Meir of
Rothenberg (Cremona, 1557; Prague, 1608; Lemberg, 1860;
Berlin, 1891-92; Budapest, 1896), etc. (see below, section B,
and Buber, Introd. to <I>Sefer ha-Orah</I>, pp.152 <I>et
seq</I>.)
6. In rabbinical literature we find quotations from Responsa
collections bearing upon special points in Talmudic law, such
as ablutions, the making and the use of <I>Tefillin</I>, the
<I>Zizit</I>, the order of the <I>Parashiot</I>, the blessing
of the priests, the ceremony of the Passover eve, the
slaughter of animals, the case of diseased animals, impurity
in women, etc.
7. These collections have penetrated in part into the SEFER HA-
PARDES, the MAHZOR VITRY, and the other compilations mentioned
in chap. IX. Upon this point see chap. IX and articles by A.
Epstein and S. Poznanski published in the
<I>Monatsschrift</I>, xli.
8. THE LITURGICAL POEMS by Rashi, some of which are printed in
the collections of Selihot of the German ritual, are
enumerated by Zunz in <I>Synagogale Poesie des
Mittelalters</I>, Berlin, 1865, pp.252-4.
Three books have been wrongly attributed to Rashi: a medical
work, <I>Sefer ha-Refuah</I>; a grammatical work, <I>Leshon
Limmudim</I>, actually composed by Solomon ben Abba Mari of
Lunel; and an entirely fanciful production called <I>Sefer ha-
Parnes</I> (incorrect for <I>Sefer ha-Pardes</I>).
B. THE EDITIONS OF RASHI's WORKS
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