ROSENFELD, ZECHARIAH JOSEPH. Zichron Zechariah.

Discusses the question whether a public desecrator of the Sabbath can be appointed as an agent to deliver a "Get" or bill of divorce. This was a critical issue at the time, as desecration of the Sabbath was rampant in America. Rosenfeld especially criticizes those Jews who deliberately shave on the Sabbath instead of another day of the week. The author served as a Rabbi in St. Louis and authored a number of pamphlets on contemporary Jewish law, the most celebrated being "Yosef Tikvah" (St. Louis, 1903) which discusses the permissibility of machine matzah for Passover. Rosenfeld also had a bitter feud with R. Shalom Elchanan Jaffe concerning the halachic validity of a Mikveh constructed by Jaffe in St. Louis.