Unpublished article. The German Talmudist, R. Jair Hayyim Bacharach (1638-1702) published his Responsa collection in Franfurt in 1699. The following is a translation of the major part of Responsum No. 152 in which the author seeks to defend the Talmudic Rabbis against the accusation that they stooped to un-called-for violence and vehemence in their debates….