[Avodah] Rosh Hashanah and Easter

[Zev Sero]

Mottel Gutnick wrote:

> The ADU rule was a late development in medieval times

I don't see how it can be.  If your theory of its reason is correct
then it must have been decided before the Moslem conquest of EY, Bavel,
North Africa, and Spain, i.e. the homes of the vast majority of Jews.
There is no way that a later invention, especially one coming from
Christendom, would have been accepted by Jews in Dar-al-Islam.

And yet, for it to have arisen during the Byzantine rule of EY, we
must suppose that the phenomenon of Eastertide anti-Jewish riots
existed then and there.  Is there any evidence for such a thing?




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