[Moreh la-shoḥṭim be-derekh sheʼelah u-teshuvah.]
[מורה לשוחטים בדרך שאלה ותשובה.]

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Valabrègne, Yitsḥaḳ de.

Contributor:

Moldovan, Joseph, donor.

Moldovan, Susan, donor.

Moldovan Family Judaica Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews.

Questions and answers--Jews.

Questions and answers.

France--Carpentras.

Shehitah.

Jews--Dietary laws.

Jews--France--Carpentras--18th century.

Comtat Venaissin (France)--History--18th century--Sources.

Comtat Venaissin (France).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Former owner inscriptions: effaced inscription in ink (front cover); 'kisah' twice in Hebrew letters in black crayon (inside front cover); en tano [?] Commence vendredi au soir in ink (? inside front cover upside down); Citoyen Abraham (back cover).

GIFT FROM THE MOLDOVAN FAMILY COLLECTION By Joseph T. Moldovan C'76 and Susan A. Moldovan C'76. Donated in Honor and Memory of Jean and Dr. Alfred Moldovan.

Physical Description:

22 leaves : paper ; 215 x 140 (170 x 95) mm

Production:

[Carpentras?], 1772.

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript, likely once a teaching handbook, for the purposes of imparting and studying the laws of shehitah (ritual slaughter), kisuy ha-dam (the covering of the blood after the slaughter of birds and wild beasts, 'ḥayot ṿe-ʻofot') and ṭerefot (deformities which disqualify the kashrut of a slaughtered animal). The format of the text is one of question and answer; for example, why is a delayed slaughtering motion (shehiyah) prohibited (f. 11v); what is the law if one discovers the trachea cut or removed (f. 13v); if one slaughtered one hundred fowl or one hundred beasts, of how many [of these] must he cover their blood and how many blessings must he recite (f. 15r); what types of lung adhesions (sirkhot) are permitted (f. 19r). Many of these questions are found in the Talmud and halakhic codes.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 22; 1²⁴ (-23,-24); modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto, 1-22.

Layout: Written in 19-20 long lines ruled in hardpoint; an indentation follows each heading of "sheʼelah" and "teshuvah," and the last line of each entry is centered.

Script: Written in a Franco-Italian square script, with most of the manuscript being vocalized.

Decoration: Pen flourishes after the text and the colophon (f. 22r).

Binding: In original paper wrapper.

Origin: Written likely in Carpentras, France, by the shoḥeṭ of Carpentras, Yitsḥaḳ de Valabrègne, on 15 Heshvan 5533 (Wednesday, 11 November 1772).

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 494.

OCLC:

1100423510