Bidspirit auction | ABOAB, SHMUEL. Sepher HaZichronoth [ethics].

ABOAB, SHMUEL. Sepher HaZichronoth [ethics]. Title within wreathed arch. ff. (4), 86. Foxed and stained. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Prague 367. (Prague 1650). edit 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.