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I just read a news story about a newly discovered sentence-long fragment of the Jerusalem Talmud that apparently resolves a previously unintelligible section of Tractate Bikkurim. Does anyone know more details? What section was unintelligible? What was the problem? What does the new sentence say? Is it, by any chance, a prohibition against adding new categories of forbidden foods on Pesach? (Please?) |
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There does not seem to be any appreciable difference between the standard text and the one that was just found. There are a few minor variations, some of which resemble the version recorded by R. Shlomo Sirilio (an early Acharon who wrote a commentary on Yerushalmi). In many places the text of the fragment is truncated, apparently because this scribe (or an earlier one) wanted to save time, space, and/or effort. At any rate, there does not appear to be a real basis for the claim in that article, unless there is another piece of the fragment that was not shown. |
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