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

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Moses Lilienthal

Jerusalem

1895

FIRST EDITION. Two title-pages. With woodcut of Western Wall and the Tomb of the Kings of the Davidic dynasty. On f. 74r. there is a responsum addressed to Tzvi Hirsch Maiselman of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and on f. 79v. a question from the shochet of Levenworth, Kansas. With inscription by the author to M. Adler on printed letter attached to front and stamp of previous owner, Rabbi D. A. Levinthal of Philadelphia

Friedberg, Shin 503

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 work bears the encomia of the great rabbis of Eretz Israel: R. Samuel Salant and R. Saul Chaim 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.”