The fraudulent Yerushalmi on Kodashim! Complete set of the fraudulent Seder Kodashim that caused a great dispute in Europe. First edition S. Varhal (Seini) 1906-1909. First edition. Rare.
[2] volumes of the fraudulent Talmud Yerushalmi that caused a great dispute at that time. With the Cheshek Shlomo commentary by the deceitful Shlomo Friedlander. First edition. S. Varhal (Seini) 1906-1909. Rare!
With approbations by the author of the Harei Besamim – Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Horowitz, Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald of Satmar, the Maharsham of Berzhan and more.
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Tractate Chulin and Bechorot, on the general title page, and on the title page of Tractate Chulin: 1907. On the title page of Tractate Bechorot: (1906) ו’ת’ס’ר’ את בגדי אלמנותה. 31 cm. [10], 78; [1], 47 leaves. Some stains. Several moth holes. Some wear to binding. Good condition.
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Tractate Zevachim and Arachin: [8], 100 leaves. With the stamp of Moshe Marmor, an ownership notation by him and his signature and an additional owner’s signature. Some wear to binding. Some stains. Good-very good condition.
Background: In 1906, Shlomo Yehuda Algazi, known as Friedlander, started publishing that he has found an ancient manuscript of the entire Seder Kodashim of the Yerushalmi (a Seder about which there was considerable controversy concerning whether it ever existed in the first place). He convinced an owner of a printery in Sieni to print the manuscript, adding his commentary, which he titled Cheshek Shlomo.
This fraud was initially accepted joyfully by most rabbis and scholars, the Maharsham of Berzhan even adding his approbation.
Slowly the Rabbis and scholars began to doubt the reliability of this Seder. Friedlander, who was furious due to the attacks on his honor (and livelihood), published a Kuntres under a pseudonym titled Cherev Nokemet, slandering Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzki, author of the Kli Chemdah, who wrote a booklet titled ‘שאלו שלום ירושלים’ doubting the authenticity of the manuscript. Later it was revealed that Friedlander was an infamous con man who was already caught red-handed several times in the past and that even his name was fraudulent. The Yerushalmi was brought to three of Gedolei Hador, the Imrei Emes of Ger, Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk and Rabbi Yosef Ruzhin, the Rogatchover and they decided that it was a fraud.
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