ABSTRACT
When the documents reached Saadiah he examined them and saw things in them that did not seem right to him. Nevertheless he spoke to the men courteously: ‘Go to Kohen Zedek, the head of the Pumbedita academy, and let him sign this document first; then I will do so’. Now he only said this in order to cover up the unseemly thing which was obvious to him but which he did not wish to make public. They did as he commanded them and went to Kohen Zedek, the head of the Pumbedita academy, and he put his seal on them.
