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, Hanukkah, and Libation wine, 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] and the Defects of slaughtered animals in the Land of Israel .[5]