Rashi’s commentary to tractate Sukka: An examination of the textual transmissions

Rashi’s commentary to the Babylonian Talmud has attracted the attention of a host of scholarly studies. Over the past generation, scholars have begun to produce in-depth studies of the textual witnesses to Rashi’s commentary to a few tractates, aiming principally to pursue its original text and determine the appropriate weight to assign to each textual witness in the preparation of a scientific edition. Our research will be devoted to the study of Rashi’s commentary to tractate Sukka. We shall first present a list and brief descriptions of the textual witnesses of the commentary and then examine their mutual relationships while offering a few examples to illustrate and explain the conclusions we reached. Then we shall seek to demonstrate the scholarly importance of the use of these witnesses.