Hashkamath HaPoker. * BOUND WITH: Sippur…MeHaish Ploni Almoni HaYadua. Manuscript in Hebrew. Two separate works, both written in the same small rabbinic hand. By Ephraim ben Moshe Blogudat, Bogoslav.

(PARODY).

(Russia)

1889

Titles within decorated borders.

The title of the first work is a parody of the expression Hashkamath Haboker (arising in the morning). The actual text is a parody of the laws of the Shulchan Aruch and commentary of R. Moshe Isserles. It pokes fun at the behavior of Apikorsim, humorously emphasizing that all their pursuits are contrary to the Torah, from the moment they arise in the morning, their mode of dress, etc. Cites the spurious works: Maskil El Dal, Teshuvoth Zollel Vesova, Teshuvoth Gilui Harosh, Teshuvoth Maroth Negaim and Sepher Hamodeh. The second work is an anti-Christian polemical history of Jesus of Nazareth, similar to Toldoth Yeshu, an early Jewish biography which is entirely at variance with the Gospels. Suggested to date as far back as the first-century, the publication of Toldoth Yeshu was opposed by Jews and non-Jews alike due to its many passages considered to be offensive to Christian sensibilities. Nonetheless, it was widely distributed in manuscript form in different versions and with different titles.