Gut Yom Tov

 

THE YOM TOV OF כ"ו תמוז                    TONIGHT, time to put on the Shtreimel & party                             R. Shmuel Gurary, a wealthy Chabad Chasid, purchased  hundreds of letters of the בעל שם טוב that were found in the *Kherson Geniza. He presented them to ​his Rebbe the מהרש"ב הרב שלום דוב בער זצ"ל .  In the 1930s,  הרב יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן זצ"ל  (Frierdiger Rebbe)  published some three hundred letters, purportedly from  the pen of the בעל שם טוב & his Talmidim. in the Chabad journal, "התמים".  There are two letters in the התמים where the בעל שם טוב and some of his Talmidim declared כ"ו תמוז as a  Yom Tov & is to be celebrated by all future generations  מעתה ועד עולם -- יום משתה ושמחה בכל אתר ואתר  The Kherson Geniza was proven to be a complete forgery Chabad are the only ones who still considers them authentic

 

 

In letter # קעד, it states that Bishop Skolski was instrumental in helping to win the debate. Wikipedia lists all the Bishops of Lviv (Lemberg) from 1375 to 2008. There is no mention of a Bishop Skolski in the entire list. The Bishop in the year 1759 (תקי"ט) was Władysław Aleksander Łubieński (1703–1767) was archbishop of Lwów (1758–59) and primate of Poland (1759–1767)