Maginei Shlomo HaMefuar - Rabbi Yehoshua of Cracow

The Maginei Shlomo was written for the purpose of resolving the difficult passages in Rashi which the Baalei Tosfot dispute and question.

Rabbi Yehoshua of Krakow ( -1648) once commented to his students that Rashi had appeared to him in a dream and said, "Because you trouble yourself to save me from the powerful and brilliant lions of Torah, the Baalei Tosfot, I, together with my students, will come to greet you in Olam Habah, the World To Come."
On the day of the Maginei Shlomo's tassing, approximately one half-hour before his soul left its earthly abode, he lay in bed surrounded by a group of Torah scholars. He looked up and said, "Make room for the light of Yisrael, Rabbeinu Shlomo Yitzchaki, Rashi, who has arrived with his entourage to accompany me on my journey to the next world. I stood by his side throughout the years to rejoin and elucidate his commentary from the challenges posed by the Baalei Tosfos and now he is compensating me."

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