Worms Town

Arriving in Worms - The Grand Archway Entrance - Porte Ville

The Schule - Synagogue in Worms

The outside of the Shul of Worms - amazing to see this in Germany after the " חוּרבן איירוֹפא "

Rashi - רשי

Reb Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi), 1040-1105 . He traced his ancestry through the Tanna'im Reb Yochanan HaSandlar and Hillel the Elder back to King David. He received his early talmudic training from his father, Rabbi Yitzchak. At a young age he went to Worms, Germany, to broaden his knowledge under Reb Yaakov ben Yakar. At the age of 25 he returned to his native Troyes. Amazingly, Rashi accomplished all his work during the Period of the Crusades, when life was extremely dangerous for the Jews. Rashi had three daughters, who were great scholars in their own right, but also were married to men of greatness, and had children known as he "Baalei Tosafos," the most famous of whom, Reb Yaakov ben Meir, was known as Rabeinu Tam. Worms was the home of RASHI one of the greatest writers and commentaters of the TORAH , NACH , Talmud

Please see www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org for complete history of RASHI.

Beth Hamidrash of Rashi - רשי

The Mikve

Please see Mikvah.org which will explain the important values of "Taharas Mishpocha"

( abstainence of sexual relations when monthly menstrual bleeding occurs and the importance of immersion in a pool of ( warm !) rainwater called a MIKVEH ) .

There is a Plaque in the Shul - Synagogue in Worms

commemorating that Rashi lived in Worms

Plaquette Schule

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Please see our page for the graves of The Maharam and Maharil in Worms - Germany

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Photo provided by kindness of Andre Adler , Strasbourg , France