[Avodah] Yekum Purkan

[Zev Sero]

Richard Wolpoe wrote:

> If Yekum Purkam MENTIONS reishei galvasa by name it CANNOT be from Eretz 
> Yisroel! How can a resih galusa be from EY?   Yekum Purkan is "signed" 
> as from Bavel. -but not because it is Aramaic.

I don't see how that proves anything.  YP prays for the rabbis and
civic leaders of both countries; if people in EY can pray for the
rabbis of Bavel why can't they also pray for the Reish Galuta?

It actually seems to me on reflection that it may have originated
outside both countries, that it's a prayer by the "out of town" Jews,
who depended for their Yiddishkeit on the centres of EY and Bavel,
for the welfare of the leadership in those centres.  Perhaps today
people "out of town" should pray for "maranan verabanan" in EY and
New York!

But that would again imply that it either predated the Italian
yeshivot that were the spiritual centre of early Ashkenaz, or that it
was written outside Europe, where they looked to EY and Bavel, not to
Bari or Otronto.

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