Joshua Friedman. Rivavoth Ephraim [polemic against R. Menashe of Ilya’s Alphei Menashe on the Talmud]

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 160
(MENASHE BEN JOSEPH BEN PORATH OF ILYA).

Joshua Friedman. Rivavoth Ephraim [polemic against R. Menashe of Ilya’s Alphei Menashe on the Talmud]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> pp. 68. Slight staining. Contemporary boards. 12mo. Vinograd, Gr’a 1568 n. 381.

Zhitomir: Y. M. Bakst 1871

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $1,100
In this polemical work, the author severely castigates R. Menashe for “uprooting at his will” many of the basic foundations of the Talmud and Poskim based upon his confused erroneous ideas…”What will the silly Maskilim say when they see a Gaon turning the plate of the Torah upside down?”