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

(MENASHE BEN JOSEPH BEN PORATH OF ILYA).

Y. M. Bakst

Zhitomir

1871

Vinograd, Gr’a 1568 n. 381.

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?”