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Yalkut Shimoni
Yalkut Shimoni
1200 CE–1280 CE · Rishonim · Frankfurt am Main
The Yalkut Shimoni is the great medieval anthology of Midrash — rabbinic interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. Arranged verse by verse, it gathers explanations of the entire Hebrew Bible from over fifty older sources, many of which are now lost, making it a treasury that preserves teachings found nowhere else. Traditionally credited to Shimon HaDarshan of Frankfurt, it became the most widely used midrash collection of all — a single, convenient reference for preachers and students.
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Frankfurt am MainפרנקפורטGermany
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Frankfurt am Main in this era
Under the Holy Roman Empire, with the Staufen dynasty at its height until mid-century and then fragmented princely rule, Frankfurt was becoming a major trading hub on the Main River—a free imperial city of growing Christian merchant power. The Jewish community there was well-established and economically vital, though subject to the mounting pressures and violence that characterized German Jewry in the High Middle Ages: the Crusades had brought massacres in the 1190s, and blood libels and restrictions multiplied through the thirteenth century. Yet Frankfurt's Jews remained engaged in moneylending, trade, and scholarship; by the late 1200s the city was home to a significant yeshiva and scribal tradition. The Yalkut Shimoni, a massive midrashic compilation drawing on earlier rabbinic sources, reflects the intensive textual and interpretive work that continued in such communities even as their legal and physical security eroded—a scholar's monument built amid gathering storms.
About Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main, on the Main river in Hesse, Germany, became an imperial city in 1372. Holy Roman kings were elected here, by law from 1356, and from 1562 to 1792 they were also crowned here, and in 1848 the first elected German parliament met in its St. Paul's Church. Philipp Jakob Spener, the city's Lutheran chief pastor from about 1666 to 1686, is regarded as the father of Pietism. From 1462 its Jews were confined to the Judengasse, early modern Germany's largest Jewish community. The Chatam Sofer was born here in 1762, and Samson Raphael Hirsch led its Orthodox Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft from 1851 until his death in 1888. Most of its Jews fled or were killed in the Holocaust.
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Yalkut Shimoni on Nachילקוט שמעוני על נ״ך
Tiberias · 1250