MENASSEH SUTTON. Kenessia LeShem Shamayim

(WOMEN)

Eliyahu and Moshe Sasson

Jerusalem

1874

FIRST EDITION

HaLevy 210

Concerns the practice of Jewish women in the Near East of preparing incense for the use of sorcery to cure various forms of illnesses. Menasseh Sutton, Rabbi of Aleppo, Syria, thoroughly investigated this practice which he regarded as a form of idolatry. The present work contains his lengthy responsum on the subject, plus other responsa concurring that the practice must be stopped. See D.Sutton, Aleppo, City of Scholars (2005) p. 339