[Bylaws and fines for infringements and lateness in the synagogue on Sabbath].
[תקנות וקנסות כנגד הפרות ואיחור בבית הכנסת בשבת].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Karp, Abraham J., former owner.

Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Shtetls.

Jews.

History.

Pinkasim.

Tardiness.

Judaism.

Eastern Europe.

Synagogue officers.

Synagogue etiquette.

Gabba'im.

Tardiness--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Pinkasim--Specimens.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--Sources.

Shtetls--Religious life and customs.

Genre:

Sources.

Specimens.

Rules (instructional materials)

Bylaws (administrative records)

Extracts (partial documents)

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jewish C.F. (stamp on verso), numbered k212 and later as P212 (inscriptions in pencil, verso).

Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 196 x 134 (54 x 94) mm

Place of Publication:

[Poland or Lithuania], [between 1740 and 1790]

[פולין או ליטא], [בין 1740 - 1790]

Language Note:

Yiddish.

Summary:

This is a manuscript leaf torn from a codex, likely a synagogue pinḳas, stating regulations for the gabbai (synagogue treasurer) to collect fines for lateness to the Sabbath learning sessions. Translation of the Yiddish text: "It is expressed by the committee that all are obligated for every Sabbath to come to the studying at the time which the beadle appoints, and anyone who does not arrive at the time which the gabbai has allowed to be enforced must pay a fine of one grosz, and one who arrives during the middle of study must give (an additional) half grosz; one who leaves without permission of the gabba'im pays a fine of two grosz." The language of "the committee" ("מהחברה") suggests that this community was too small to have a parnas (a community dignitary) and perhaps not even a rabbi; the language of the function of the beadle further suggests that he was to gather the congregants from their houses to the synagogue ("דער צייט אז דער שמש ווערט אן זאגין") while the gabba'im were to supervise the study; this arrangement was typical of small towns and villages in Eastern Europe.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Script: Written in a Polish-Ashkenazic cursive script; page and paragraph numbers in an Ashkenazic square script. "Grosh" written as a ligature.

Layout: Written in 7 lines forming a paragraph under an aleph. Final word centered.

Origin: Written in Poland or Lithuania, circa 1740-1790; locale used grosz (or grosch) as currency.

Item repaired along original tear at right margin.

Cited as:

UPenn Karp BV.21b

OCLC:

1250319393