Rivan—Rabbi Yehuda ben Natan רבי יהודה בן נתן
Rashi's son-in-law, who finished his commentary
Rashi had no sons—he had three daughters, and through their husbands and sons went the whole school of the Tosafot. Rabbi Yehuda ben Natan, husband of the eldest, Miriam, was among his father-in-law's first students.
His best-known deed is the completion of the commentary. In tractate Makkot, on folio 19b, stands the note: our teacher's body was made pure, his soul departed, and from here on his student explains. Those few words are one of the most human places in the printed Talmud: the author's death marked in the text itself, in the middle of an analysis of the law.
Parts of the commentaries on Yevamot and Nedarim are ascribed to him as well, and rulings that entered the Machzor Vitry.
The sources give no exact years of life; the window of activity is set by generation, following Aharon Hyman and the lists of Seder haDorot.
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Chazal: Mishnah, Talmud, midrash, Zohar
- Makkot 19b — the note on Rashi's death and the student's continuation
Rishonim
- Machzor Vitry — the rulings of the school of Rashi's house
Basis: documents and evidence.