(RaShB”A). She'eloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa]

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(RaShB”A). She'eloth u-Teshuvoth [responsa]

Second edition. Present with indices (missing from many copies). Additional title. A wide-margined copy. ff. (16), 216. On title, crude tape repairs and institutional stamps. Browned and stained in places. Last leaves wormed with minor loss of text. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio Vinograd, Bologna 14; Mehlman 693 (incomplete)

Bologna: The Company of Silk-Weavers 1539

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

The author was the foremost Spanish rabbi of the late 13th- early 14th-centuries whose works loom large on the horizon of Halacha. As a respondent, the RaShB”A answers inquiries directly, without unnecessarily lengthy scholastic discussion. The number of his responsa reaches well over three thousand, with inquiries addressed from all parts of the Jewish world, and touching upon all phases of law - religious, family and civil, as well as theological concerns. See M. Waxman, History of Jewish Literature (1933), Vol. II, pp.165-67.