[Avodah] V'hu Rachum Authorship

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Sun Oct 31 14:41:03 PDT 2010


On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:15:41PM -0400, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
: Avodas Yisroel (Roedelheim 1868, p. 112) quotes a manuscript dating to 1407
: that V'hu Rachum was authored by three people from the Yotzei Yerushalaim,
: who were exiled by אספסיינס שחיק עצמות, which refers to, I think, Vespasian.

Transliterations, for those who don't get Hebrew:
Aspesainus sechiq atzamos

: The problem I have with that is that:
: a. Hadrian is the one who was usually referred to with the epithet שחיק
: עצמות...

Sechiq atzamos

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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