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Mashbit Milchamot, collection of rulings by rabbis allowing the use of the Rovigo mikveh, Venice: 1606. Only edition. -  Mashbit Milchamot, collection of rulings by rabbis allowing the use of the Rovigo mikveh, which was at the center of a famous polemic. Venice: Zanetto Zanetti, 1606. Only edition. The mikveh in the house previously owned by R. Avtalyon Consiglio in Rovigo was at the center of a polemic which stirred the rabbinic world in Italy. The rulings of rabbis permitting the use of the mikveh were compiled in the present work. Objections to the present rulings were published in the book Palgei Mayim, edited by R. Moshe Porto, Venice 1608, and in Mikveh Yisrael by R. Yehuda da Saltara of Fano, Venice 1607. On verso of title page, foreword by R. Yitzchak Gershon, who presumably compiled the book and brought it to print (in his foreword, R. Yitzchak Gershon writes that he also approves the use of the mikveh; his name appears in the list of approving rabbis on p. 94b; regarding the Rovigo mikveh polemic, and the various publications on both sides, see: A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sefer, Jerusalem 1958, pp. 420-429).