(Ed.) Or HaYashar [divorce law].

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $450

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author

AARON SHIMON OF COPENHAGEN

printer

Gerard Johann Jansen

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1769

Description

First Edition. Autographs and stamp of Chief Rabbi Samuel Heller of Safed on title. Marginal notes.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1966.

summary

Concerns The Cleves Get controversy, one of the great causes célèbres of the 18th century, which involved most of the great rabbinic adjudicators of the day. This work includes opinions by R. Ya’akov Emden, the Noda BeYehuda), (the Sha’agath Aryeh, R. Saul of Amsterdam, etc. R. Shmuel Heller (1803-83) was a leading Chassidic presence in Safed and central to communal affairs both in the Land of Israel and Europe.

ff. 7. 111 (1). Light stains. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. 8vo.

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