Mishpat LaAshukim, "passing judgment on the terrible oppression and great atrocity done to the shochet of Sângeorz-Băi and Ilva Mică, to the dismay of the Rabbis and Tzaddikim who stand by the poor…". Szamosújvár: Chaim Schoenfeld, [1910].

Sharp polemical work, by the heads of the Sângeorz-Băi community in Transylvania, R. Yosef Gans and R. Efraim Meister, printed in the wake of the prohibition laid by R. Avraham Yehoshua Freund, Av Beit Din of Interdam (Lușca) and Năsăud, on meat slaughtered by the shochet of Sângeorz-Băi, R. Avraham Chaim of Vișeu de Sus.

Over a hundred rabbis and Rebbes from Hungary and Galicia took part in the polemic, and the dispute even reached the secular authorities [in the same place and year the book Milchamot Chovah was printed, citing the Rebbes and rabbis who supported R. Avraham Yehoshua of Năsăud in prohibiting the meat of R. Avraham Chaim of Sângeorz-Băi, including Rebbes of Sanz, Sighet-Satmar; the Levushei Mordechai of Mád; R. Shaul Brach, Av Beit Din of Carei and others.]

The present work was edited by the dayan R. David Moskowitz of Năsăud, and contains apologetics and letters of support from Rebbes and rabbis of Hungary and Galicia who opposed the prohibition placed by R. Avraham Yehoshua of Năsăud on the shochet. The work contains three additional booklets: 1. Meshiv Milchamah, "a response to Milchamot Chovah published by the Rabbi of Interdam and his party"; 2. Mashbit Milchamah, "against rabbis who prohibit from afar… without proper examination"; 3. Eked Ro'im, the opinion of the rabbis supporting the Sângeorz-Băi community leaders and declaring R. Avraham Chaim fit as a shochet, including R. Moshe Shmuel Glasner, Av Beit Din of Klausenburg; R. Avraham Binyamin Kluger of Brody; R. Shimon Sofer, Av Beit Din of Erlau (Eger); the Maharsham of Berezhany; Rebbe Avraham Aharon Teitelbaum of Kolbuszowa; R. Meir Arik, Av Beit Din of Tarnów; the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka and others.

[2], 3-18; [1], 2-8, [1]; [1], 1-16; [1], 2-25, 25-29 leaves. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Margins of title page and subsequent page repaired with paper. Stamps. New leather binding.

On the polemic regarding the shochet of Sângeorz-Băi, see: R. Yekutiel Yehudah Greenwald, The Shochet and Shechitah in Rabbinic Literature, New York, 1955, chapter 6, pp. 156-176 (Hebrew).