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Devar HaShemitah, by R. Eliezer Eliyahu Wallenstein – letters of rabbis and opposition to Heter Mechirah. Jerusalem: Zichron Shlomo, sons of R. Y. L. Löwy, 1889.
Contains halachic rulings supporting and opposing Heter Mechirah, an allowance for agricultural work in the Shemitah year by sale of the land to a non-Jew. Stamps (Hebrew and English).
26 pages. 16 cm. Dry paper. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 648.
PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.
Devar HaShemitah, anthology of letters of rabbis supporting Heter Mechirah, edited by R. Yitzchak Hirschensohn. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Hirschensohn, 1888.
The book contains articles published in periodicals, most by R. Yaakov Mordechai Hirschensohn, the author's father, supporting Heter Mechirah, an allowance for agricultural work in the Shemitah year by sale of the land to a non-Jew.
[2], 110 pages. Approx. 19 cm (uneven trimming). Dry paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 614.
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Eizo Hi Mishnah, on the history of the Mishnah from the giving of the Torah until R. Yehudah HaNasi, by R. Chaim Hirschensohn. Jerusalem: printed by the author R. Chaim Hirschensohn, 1890.
On second leaf, printed dedication to Dr. Azriel Hildesheimer in honor of his 70th birthday. At the top of the leaf, the author adds a handwritten dedication (somewhat trimmed).to "Dr. Chazanowitz" (apparently Dr. Yosef Chazanowitz, a founder of the Midrash Abarbanel library, today the National Library of Israel).
[3] leaves (and another blank leaf), 46 pages. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Open tear to title page, slightly affecting title frame, repaired with paper to verso. Handwritten inscriptions. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 692.
PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.