https://seforimblog.com/2007/08/marc-b-shapiro-forgery-and-halakhic-2/?print=print
Getting back to R. Moshe, as is well known, he ruled that the Commentary of R. Yehudah he-Hasid was a forgery, as he could not imagine that a rishon would acknowledge that there were some post-Mosaic passages in the Torah.[3] Only after my book appeared did Rabbi Naor tell me that the comment I quoted above in the name of R. Fisher was stated precisely with reference to R. Moshe’s positon on this issue. After R. Moshe banned R. Yehudah he-Hasid’s Commentary, R. Fisher commented that R. Moshe assumes that R. Yehudah he-Hasid has to accept the Rambam’s Principles, but in truth there were many disagreements with the Rambam, and R. Yehudah he-Hasid’s position on Mosaic authorship is one of them.
From what I've seen over the years, "it must be a forgery" was a favourite of Rav Moshe's, zt"l, when he came across a text that didn't read the way he thought it should.
ReplyDeleteI think he didn't like the Yaavetz either. The Yaavetz didn't like Rambam's guide for the perplexed, and even said that he (rambam) didn't write it!
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