A puzzling fast that is mentioned in an ancient book • A few mentions by rabbis and old documents • And a spy in the highest position • A secret secret or a dubious legend? Judge them

• The first Jewish pope? Petrus // Photo: From Wikipedia

At a glance, this is just a mere list of Jewish fasting days that no one practices, but one that may be one of Judaism's best kept secrets. The list, which originated in the 9th-century "Halachot Halacha" halakha, and is also presented later in the important Halacha "16th-century Halacha" halachic book, lists all the days when Jews voluntarily fasted and fasted on each day except one fasting day: Nine Tevet, beginning today, with which it says: "It is not known what the trouble was [in] him" (attack, b).

So what happened yesterday (Monday) hundreds and maybe thousands of years ago that brought my sages to Israel to set the Nine Tevet today fasting? - The authors of the early books did not know the answer to a question that was defined as "secret" by the 18th-century HIDD, the Jewish sage, but a surprising answer to the question is found in the glosses of Rabbi Baruch Frankel to an editorial table written only a century later: "I found a manuscript On the 9th of Tevet, Shimon Kalpus died, who saved Israel in great trouble during the break-ins.

The manuscript that Rabbi Frankel, who lived in Leipzig, Czech Republic and became known as one of his great generation, probably had in the history of Jesus, a Hebrew book that was common in the past and presented an alternate and mocking history of Jesus' resume, which reads: The Israelites set Shimon and set the day of his death to torment every year and year and he spent 9 days on the moon of Tevet ... " Shimon Kalposi to whom the book refers is Shimon Kippa, a Jewish fisherman born next to the Sea of ​​Galilee, who later became Peter - the head of the apostles of Jesus and the first pope. Needless to say, "The History of Jesus" is clearly not a historical book that is unclear when it was composed and by whom, so things about Peter's fasting should be taken into account.

And yet, even according to that dubious legend, why fast for the memory of a Jew who crossed the lines and served as the founder of Christianity? - It turns out that there are Midrashic traditions that the first pope was actually a "double agent" of the sages of Israel among Christians and his job was to create a disconnect between Christianity and Judaism; Legend has it that the scholars of Israel swore to take on all the misdeeds that Simon-Peter did during his secret mission and he met it successfully when, for example, he managed to get Christians to spend their rest day from the first Sabbath; Incidentally, the fairy tales that the Jewish pope kept his Jewishness secret throughout his life and even sent Israeli sages poems of emotion he wrote in the underground, including the work order for the Yom Kippur and the poem "Soul of All Living", and these entered into the prayer arrangement of every Jew. After his death, the Sages of Israel set a day of fasting in his memory - hidden to hide the exercise the Jews did to Christians.