[Avodah] Faur's rewrite of history (was Re: RAYK's Orot - Criticism of RSRH?)

[Zev Sero]

Simon Montagu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>> Only if I fell for Faur's absurd rewrite of history. Recall, the
>> publisher of the Zohar was a Spanish Jew.

> Your style is rather telegraphic here, and I may be mis-parsing, also I 
> never heard of Faur before today, but surely everybody agrees that the 
> *publisher* of the Zohar was a Spanish Jew? Where is the absurd rewrite?

Obviously one that would be inconsistent with this fact.  I've never
heard of Faur either, but from the context it's clear that he set up
an image of Spanish Jewry that is contradicted by R Moshe de Leon and
R Avraham ibn Ezra.

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