Halachot Pesukot

Halachot Pesukot is a rabbinic work written by Yehudai Gaon in the geonic era, containing chapters on common Jewish halachic themes. The work was compiled in the 8th-century and is written in Aramaic, and follows the format of Halachot Gedolot which antedates it by about 20 years.^[1]

In 1886, A.L. Schlossberg published in Versailles an edition of Halachot Pesukot which he based on the Oxford Ms. In 1911, David Solomon Sassoon purchased a handwritten manuscript of Halachot Pesukot while visiting Yemen, and which, based on its style, appears to have been written in Babylon or Persia in the ninth or tenth century.^[2] A description of the manuscript is found in Sassoon's Ohel Dawid catalogue. The Ms. was first published by his son, Solomon David Sassoon, in 1951,^[3] and has been published several times since then by other editors.^[4]

Schlossberg's edition, which he prepared from the Oxford Ms., differs slightly from the Sassoon Ms. of Halachot Pesukot. Schlossberg's edition contains 3 additional halakhic discourses on Megillah (מגילה‎), Hanukkah (חנוכה‎), and Libation wine (יין נסך‎), which three themes do not appear in Sassoon's copy. Conversely, Sassoon's copy contains 2 additions not found in Schlossberg's edition, such as Berakhot [= Benedictions] (ברכות‎) and the Defects of slaughtered animals in the Land of Israel (טרפיות דארץ ישראל‎).^[5]

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