Despite the fact that approbations for the Frankfurt am-Main edition of the Talmud prohibited printing a new edition at this time, some very respected rabbis supplied haskamot permitting its publication. This included R. Jacob Joshua Falk (1680-1756), as well the avot beit din of Frankfurt am-Oder, Lissa, and Gloga. In his haskamah for tractate Shabbat, R. TzviHirsch, av beit din of Halberstam, expressed reservations about granting his approval, before ultimately relying on the other rabbis who he believed reviewed the matter carefully before concluding there was no cause for concern. Oddly, the other haskamot do not mention the prior, and then still valid, approbations, and provide no reason for permitting this Talmud to be printed. Rabbinovicz suggests that the printers, non-Jews, were connected with the government, and that the rabbis in question were well aware of that fact.