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INTRODUCTION:
I have
always been fascinated by the often incidental discovery of old important texts
that are constantly being made in modern times. These include writings like
those of Abulafia, for example, which Gershom Scholem happened to identify in Archives
of the Bavarian State Library when he was writing his dissertation in 1919.
There were also recent discoveries of the Meiri texts, as well as unpublished Rashi
commentaries and other works and even the recovery of some of the more recent
censored writing of Rav Kook.
In this
article, we shall explore the accidental discovery of parts of the 500-year-old
Spanish Talmud which was thought to have been lost forever.[1]
