Auction 90 Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Letters, Ceremonial Art

Machine Matzot Polemic – Modaa LeBeit Yisrael, by Rabbi Shlomo Kluger / Bittul Modaa, by R. Yosef Shaul Nathansohn Rabbi of Lviv – 1859

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Two polemic booklets regarding the kashrut of machine matzot, by leading Galician Torah scholars, printed in 1859.
• Modaa LeBeit Yisrael – responsa by prominent Torah leaders such as R. Shlomo Kluger, R. Mordechai Ze'ev Ettinger and Rebbe Chaim Halberstam of Sanz forbidding the consumption of machine matzot on Pesach. Breslau: Hirsch Sulzbach, 1859.
24 pages. 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and worming. Signatures and stamps. Tears and ink erosion to signatures. New binding.
• Bittul Modaa – rejoinder of Torah leaders to the objections raised against machine matzot, and exposition of the advantages of machine matzot – letters addressed to R. Yosef Shaul Nathansohn Rabbi of Lviv. Lviv: "Published by the wealthy members of the community", 1859.
[30] leaves. 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Worming. Signatures and stamps. New binding.

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Biography and Eulogy Books – Rabbis and Rebbes
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