Louis Ginzburg. Teshuvah bedevar Yeynoth HaKesherim VehaPesulim LeMitzvah [“Responsum concerning wines proper and improper for the commandment.”]

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Louis Ginzburg. Teshuvah bedevar Yeynoth HaKesherim VehaPesulim LeMitzvah [“Responsum concerning wines proper and improper for the commandment.”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With related materials tipped in (including a contemporary English translation). pp. 71. Ex-library, touch stained. Original printed wrappers, chipped. 8vo.

New York: New Hebrew Press 1922

Est: $500 - $700

The era of Prohibition was the impetus for Prof. Louis Ginsburg of the Jewish Theological Seminary to pen this halachic responsum establishing the permissibility of utilizing grape-juice for sacramental purposes (Kiddush, Havdalah, etc).