JAFFE, SHALOM ELCHANAN. Sho’el Kinyan. With glosses Ma’ayan Eliezer by Eliezer Zalman Grayevski

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Moses Lilienthal

Jerusalem

1895

FIRST EDITION. Title printed in red and black. On f.3v. woodcut of Western Wall; on f. 102r. woodcut of the Tomb of the Kings of the Davidic dynasty. On f. 74r. there is a responsum addressed to R. Tzvi Hirsch Maiselman of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and on f. 79v. a question from the shochet of Levenworth, Kansas

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A protracted halachic polemic between Zechariah Rosenfeld and Shalom Jaffe concerning the halachic validity of a Mikvah constructed by Jaffe in St. Louis. While defending the mikvah he constructed, Jaffe went on the offensive invalidating an eruv of his adversary which, among other leniencies, utilized telegraph poles. In the Milu’im (Adendum), Jaffe published a ruling co-signed by Rabbis Shneur Zalman of Lublin and Samuel Salant, forbidding an eruv that incorporates telegraph poles. The book bears the encomia of the great rabbis of Eretz Israel: R. Samuel Salant and R. Saul Chaim (formerly of Dubrovna) of Jerusalem, and Rabbi Naphtali Hertz Halevi of Jaffa. Rabbi Samuel Salant writes: “My soul delights to know and see that in America too there are now found rabbis great in Torah. Would that they increase in all the cities of America.”