Forgery - Jerusalemite Talmud – Kodshim, part Two: Chulin, Bechorot, with glosses of the Maharsham of Brezan and ...

Forgery - Jerusalemite Talmud – Kodshim, part Two: Chulin, Bechorot, with glosses of the Maharsham of Brezan and commentary and comments, by Shlomo Baber. Cheshek Shlomo commentary, by – Shlomo Yehuda ben Maharam Ha-Sephardi, Friedlander. Saini, 1907.

Approbations: Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Ha-Cohen, Brezen; Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Ha-Levi Ish Horowitz, Stanislav; Rabbi Eliezer Deutsch, Banihad; Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald, Satmer; Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Kluger, Brody; Rabbi Yitzchak Leib Sofer, Drohobycz.

The Jerusalemite Talmud on Seder Kodshim was lost and was never printed. In the beginning of the 20th century, a man named Shlomo Friedlander (who also adopted for himself a false identity of a descendant of the Algazi family) copied, with great talent, all of the citations from Kodshim-Jerusalemite found in works of the Rishonim, together with citations from different Sedarim. He then publicized that he had found a manuscript of the missing Jerusalemite Talmud, which was known as lost . This forgery mislead many rabbis and researchers of his time; including the Maharsham, who even wrote glosses to the book which were published in all its parts; the Chaetz Chaim, who began to were Rabeinu Tam tefillin based on this forged Talmud, and more. However at the same time, there were rabbis of very sharp perception such as the Kli Chemda and the Rogachover, who discovered the forgery and announced it to the public. The polemic over the Jerusalemite Talmud lasted for several years, and books were printed expressing both sides of the argument, (most of the publications siding with the Yerushalmi were written by Friedlander, under different names). 

Many essays were written regarding the polemic, a few of them are: S. HaCchoen Weingarten, Sinai, 62, 1862, pages 281-287; B. Oberlander, Ohr Yisrael, Year Two, 1997, Pamphlet 4; Year Three, 1998, Pamphlets Three-Four; and Year Four, 1999, Pamphlet One; R. Margaliot, Bibliographic notes, Areshet, B, 1960, page 356 no. 1382; ibid., Three, 1966, page 507 no. 1382.

[9], 78; [1], 47 leaves. 35 cm. Dry paper, good-fair condition. New binding with leather spine.

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