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With R' Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer discussing the forged Yerushalmi on Kodashim

SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein

R' Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer discusses the historical controversy surrounding the forged Yerushalmi on Kodashim.

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hi everyone welcome to another edition of this forum chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by a and and an author various and Al the Contemporary ARA I think that's it's called right in English as well and we'll be discussing an article that uh that he wrote and a topic that may be familiar people may be familiar with but kind of not which is the fake forged jusami that uh came out uh 20th century right so um thank you uh 20th century right so um thank you for joining me you're welcome sure pleasure let's start off tell the listeners about yourself and your background um I uh grew up in West hson New York and uh leared in many different isas um many different types and in the um in the early in the late 1980s I start learning quo first Le qu farak and then in Chicago for many years and um I started writing and uh started writing started writing and uh started writing on topics which interested me in one of my early articles was something I heard abouta several years ago uh about the forge and this piqu my interest uh this is something which I wrote about twice I wrote about infar and then uh when I was a CO there and then uh later on a more expanded version which uh is the article which appeared in the skoki Shiva Torah Journal or in which I I went into the greater depth and uh since then I've

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  1. 0:02hi everyone welcome to another edition of this forum chatter podcast on this episode of the
  2. 3:37around 18 people to my in the morning and three or four of them started coming
  3. 6:47AI yeah I'm pointing out I think one a half here that is the um a
  4. 9:54Freelander was authentic right I think back then when people didn't travel as much and people
  5. 12:58to verify uh the the uh origin of the manuscript so um you know again nowadays
  6. 16:09and he figur that this finding of theam must be part and parcel of the of
  7. 19:17B There is a list of which we don't have in ouri because we sh him
  8. 22:23like the may also the various different who realized that this was a forgery and the
  9. 25:58people say now as you're talking try and go back and see if I can figure
  10. 29:05swander had a another uh um another one of these discussions and freand wrote a book

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