person · P0233
Rashbam רשב"ם
Rashi's grandson (son of his daughter Yocheved and R' Meir ben Shmuel), his student and boldest continuator: champion of uncompromising peshat in his Torah commentary, completer of Rashi's unfinished Talmud commentary on Bava Batra and Pesachim. Elder brother and teacher of Rabbeinu Tam.
I. Who
- Hebrew
- רשב"ם
- Also known as
- Shmuel ben Meir
- Era
- rishonim
- Received the mesorah from
- Rashi
- Transmitted the mesorah to
- Rabbeinu Tam
- Teachers
- Rashi
- Students
- Rabbeinu Tam
II. When
- Traditional
- c. 4845–4918 AM
- Academic
- c. 1085–1158 CE
- Lifespan (traditional)
- ≈73 years
- Precision
- approximate
III. Where
- Places
- Ramerupt, Troyes
V. How do we know
| Claim | Evidence | Confidence | Sources |
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| His reception from Rashi is attested in his own commentary: "and also Rabbeinu Shlomo, the father of my mother... I debated with him and before him, and he admitted to me that had he the time he would have needed to make new commentaries according to the plain meanings that newly emerge every day." | rabbinic | ★★★★★ | |
| He also received from his father R' Meir ben Shmuel, Rashi's son-in-law and one of the first Tosafists — not yet in the atlas, so recorded here as a claim only. | tradition | ★★★☆☆ | |
| He completed Rashi's unfinished Bavli commentary: the printed commentary on most of Bava Batra (from folio 29 onward) and on the last chapter of Pesachim is the Rashbam's — direct engagement with the written Talmud, the basis of the writings-reception edge. | rabbinic | ★★★★☆ | |
| Shmuel ben Meir; son of Meir ben Shmuel and of Yocheved daughter of Rashi, and elder brother of Rabbeinu Tam and of Yitzchak (Rivam). | rabbinic | ★★★★☆ |
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| Kept livestock and worked in viticulture as his livelihood, alongside his teaching.
Commonly stated; the research pass has not located a single citable primary locus and have kept confidence low accordingly.
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rabbinic | ★★☆☆☆ |
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| The commentary printed on the tenth chapter of Pesachim (Arvei Pesachim) is attributed to him.
The attribution is standard but has been questioned; the research pass has not asserted an exact starting daf because the research pass could not verify it.
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rabbinic | ★★★☆☆ |
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| Wrote a continuous commentary on the Torah, transmitted separately from Rashi's, of which parts (including the opening of Genesis) are lost from the surviving manuscript tradition.
Authorship and transmission fact; content excluded per scope.
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rabbinic | ★★★★☆ |
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