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Auction 69 · Lot 172

Kol Kore.

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(SHECHITAH).

Place

Vilna

Publication

1908

Description

Single page Hebrew broadside.

summary

Announcement banning the consumption of meat unless it had been ritually slaughtered by a Shochet who had been authorized and approved by the community rabbi. The practice of young Shochtim (slaughterers) providing meat to the community as independent contractors is herewith prohibited and the public should regard such meat as unkosher. Endorsed by twenty of the most prominent Rabbis in Russia including: R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk, R. Eliezer Gordon of Telz, R. David Friedman of Karlin, R. Raphael Shapiro of Volozhin and R. Shalom Dov Ber of Lubavitch.
Folded. 22 x 16 inches.
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