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Rashi

American  
[rah-shee] / ˈrɑ ʃi /

noun

  1. Solomon ben Isaac, 1040–1105, French Hebrew scholar.


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Rashi Kaslow sat on the deck of a boat he bought from a friend for just $1 before the fire.

From Los Angeles Times

With its powerful infrared vision, researchers Rashi Jain and Yogesh Wadadekar observed a system that closely resembles the Milky Way, even though it formed when the Universe was roughly a tenth of its current age.

From Science Daily

"Alaknanda has the structural maturity we associate with galaxies that are billions of years older," says Rashi Jain.

From Science Daily

“We’re the great underdogs of the greatest American disaster in history, apparently. This little community,” said Rashi Kaslow, a boat rigger who lived in the Bowl for more than 17 years.

From Los Angeles Times

Rashi, the great medieval commentator, wrote that a full four-fifths of all Hebrew slaves took one look at Moses, their liberator, said a curt “no, thanks” and decided to stay in Egypt, rejecting the travails of freedom for the known quantity, the security, of slavery — of living lives that were difficult, and less free, but safe and familiar.

From Washington Post