Composite manuscript: Hebrew letters to the Jewish court of Paris by Pinchas Michael Abdallah (Gaster Hebrew MS 1207)

All his wealth from his hand for his debts and until the table of a youth, and there is no place here to speak about this matter, only to touch upon the essence of the matter that belongs to the general benefit arising from it for all peoples and all religions. Therefore, I have placed in my heart and my mind to investigate this law, and I found it entirely forged, raising thorns and covered in nettles and sharp [thistles] upon its face. There is no soundness in it from the sole of the foot to the head; it is full of maggots, kinds of species that deny the foundations? like him, and there is no number. Therefore, the summer has passed and the harvest has ended, and we have not been saved, saying: we have sinned, we have transgressed, etc., etc. Until when will this Oral Law be a stumbling block for us S. and a snare to strike with the fist of wickedness upon the chest without any benefit? And the soul of its guardians will be lost, and they will suffer, and their wealth as well. I shall arrange before every wise-hearted man who fears God and turns away from evil this distorted judgment, and he will see and weigh with the scales of justice of his mind and examine: is it true that all who walk in the ways of this law transgressed the commandment "Do not steal" from the Ten Commandments? And this is its language in Shulchan HaEzer The Table of Help, sign 27, paragraph 1: "A woman is not considered a married woman except through betrothal that was sanctified properly," etc. He means to say: through witnesses. Therefore he said: And even if he came to her for the sake of intimacy between him and her, she is not considered a married woman... and even if he set her apart for himself, on the contrary, they force him to remove her from his house. Thus far is the language of our Master who authored the Shulchan Aruch Prepared Table. And this is the language of the Rema Rabbi Moses Isserles: "When he came to her in private and came to her in her impurity (Tur the code of law):" He means to say he set her apart for himself between him and her for the sake of intimacy without witnesses. Therefore he went back and said there: "But if he sets a woman apart for himself and she immerses for him..."