GINZBURG, LOUIS. Teshuvah bi-devar yeinoth ha-kesherim ve-ha-pesulim le-mitzvah [“Responsum concerning wines proper and improper for the commandment.”]

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GINZBURG, LOUIS. Teshuvah bi-devar yeinoth ha-kesherim ve-ha-pesulim le-mitzvah [“Responsum concerning wines proper and improper for the commandment.”]

FIRST EDITION pp.71. Slightly stained. Stiff wrappers, detached. 4to

New York / Philadelphia: 1922

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $200

The Prohibition Era in the United States was the impetus for Prof. Louis Ginsburg of the Jewish Theological Seminary to pen this halachic responsum establishing the permissibility of utillizing grape-juice for Kiddush, Havdalah, etc