The Daf Yomi forgery issue
There’s a lot going on around the Daf Yomi today.
Because the famous thinker of the idea, Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin, is celebrating his anniversary today.
We encourage you to study in this order and have lots of fun…
In short, anyone who knows history knows that this is a forgery and that the creator and distributor of the Daf Yomi is Rabbi Piwak, the late Hasidic Gur, who was a rabbi in a town near Lublin, wrote books and received approval from the great men of Israel, and perished in the Holocaust.
It seems to me that some of his family survived but are not interested in making noise today.
He published his initiative in his own name in the first Deglanu newspaper, which was published on Hanukkah 1871.
Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin published the idea long after Elul Tarpag.
Rabbi Spivak was apparently angry about the theft and even confronted Rabbi Shapira about it, but that’s how it is in the eyes of the public.
In general, there was a good relationship between them, and Piwak often participated in the inauguration of the Lublin Chachmei Yeshiva.
But it is known and clear that the Daf Yomi story is probably a kind of theft.
Is Torah distributed by theft?
Is there a fee for studying?
Will this make people better and more honest, or vice versa?
I don’t know the details, but even if someone came up with an idea, whoever saw to its implementation may legally be considered its owner.
And above all, even if the idea was stolen, so what? Because of that, we won’t learn? What’s the connection?
In the past, when the issue of Rabbi Spivak and the publication in our flag about a year and a half before Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin came up for public discussion,
I met several Gur Hasidim in Europe
I asked them why they only ‘appropriate’ the Jerusalem Daf Yomi for themselves
and remained silent about the Babylonian Daf Yomi which was actually stolen from Rabbi Spivak the Rabbi who was a Gur Hasidim?
Most of the company was surprised and did not know the issue
But there was one who told me about his grandmother who was a child in the town with Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin and he would go around saying that when he grew up he would make sure that all Jews would learn a Daf G’ every day…
So according to the grandmother, the idea of the Kaura ‘belongs’ to Rabbi Meir Shapira and not Rabbi Spivak
Although Rabbi Spivak published first.
After all, Rabbi Shapira actually raised the issue
So it is likely that it is in his name
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