One author summed it up this way: “[Rashi’s] great contribution to Jewish life was his reinterpretation of all relevant passages into the vernacular of the day, in such clear, lucid language, with such warmth and humanity, with such rare skill and scholarship, that his commentaries became revered as scripture and loved as literature.
בעניין זה אמר סופר אחד: ” תרומתו הגדולה [של רש ” י] לחיים היהודיים היתה פרשנותו המחודשת לפסוקים רלוונטיים בלשון המדוברת בימיו.