[Avodah] R' Yaakov Emden

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:19:09 -0500
Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <rygb at aishdas.org> wrote:

> In the Hagahos R' Yaakov Emden to Gittin 57a (the Agadata on Bilam and 
> Posh'ei Yisroel that Onkelos summoned), the new Vagshal Gemaros have two 
> passages that do not appear in any of the earlier editions such as the 
> Vilna, and even not in the more contemporary editions such as the Oz 
> v'Hadar. Even in the Vagshal edition, the second one of those he'aros 
> has clearly been censored by whoever added it, as there are two ellipses 
> in it - something that you do not find in other he'aros in the "Hagahos 
> v'Chiddushim" section. Both passages deal with Shabbetai Zvi. The 
> Vagshal "Devarim Achadim" says they added stuff to Hagahos R' Yaakov 
> Emden from manuscript. Does anyone know where this manuscript is, 
> whether these passages have been previously published, or what was even 
> now deemed too sensitive to print? Of course, the juiciest find would be 
> that the second passage mentioned R' Yonoson Eyebeschutz or some other 
> contemporary...

Wolf2191 [0] notes that R. Yaakov Emden's Shas is in the National
Library (Hebrew University), and he directs RYGB to Or Yisroel
#43 p. 203 [1].

[0] http://ishimshitos.blogspot.com/
[1] private correspondence

> YGB

Yitzhak
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