The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
The Marx Library (Part II).
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LOT 1:
ABOAB, SHMUEL. Sepher HaZichronoth [ethics].
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ABOAB, SHMUEL.
Sepher HaZichronoth [ethics].
Title within wreathed arch.
ff. (4), 86. Foxed and stained. Modern boards. Sm. 4to.
Vinograd, Prague 367.
(Prague 1650).
The final four leaves here transcribe a lengthy admonition of by the MaHaRa’L of Prague concerning the drinking of stam yeinam (non-Jewish originated wine).
Prof. Haym Soloveitchik has discussed at length that both Italian and Moravian Jewry were lax in this respect, and how halakhists dealt with such a challenge to traditional observance.
See H. Soloveitchik, Principles and Pressures: Jewish Trade in Gentile Wine in the Middle Ages (Tel Aviv, 2003) p. 118, n. 76.
