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Kedushat Eretz Yisrael BaZman HaZeh – Jerusalem, 1889 – Heter Mechirah Controversy

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Kedushat Eretz Yisrael BaZman HaZeh, by R. Chaim Eliezer Hausdorf. Jerusalem: M. Lilienthal, [1889].


This booklet opposes the Heter Mechirah, an allowance for agricultural work in the Shemitah year by sale of the land to a non-Jew. The author discusses the article by R. Meir HaLevi Levin (Berditchev, 1889) permitting Heter Mechirah.


[1], 14 pages. 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Many tears, including open tears to title page and many other places, affecting text, repaired with paper filling (repaired around margins of all leaves). New binding.


Sh. Halevy, no. 647.


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Early Books Printed in Jerusalem – Books and Booklets, Proclamations and Signed Letters
Early Books Printed in Jerusalem – Books and Booklets, Proclamations and Signed Letters