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Jacob Israel Carmi collection of responsa, addressed to Daṿid Yaʻaḳov Maroni : manuscript.
יעקב ישראל כרמי אוסף שו"ת בכתב-יד.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 756
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Carmi, Jacob Israel, 1767-1849, author, correspondent.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish law.
- Jews--Dietary laws.
- Jews.
- Mikveh.
- Rabbis--Italy--Reggio Emilia--19th century--Correspondence.
- Rabbis.
- Rabbis--Italy--Novellara--19th century--Correspondence.
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century.
- Manuscripts, Italian--19th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century.
- Manuscripts, Italian--19th century.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, European.
- Responsa (Jewish law)
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022.
- Physical Description:
- 13 items : paper ; 30 cm (and smaller)
- Production:
- Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1831-1839.
- רגייו, 1831-1839.
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew and Italian.
- Summary:
- Archive of manuscript responsa sent to Daṿid Yaʻaḳov Maroni during the tenure of his first rabbinates (first, Novellara (1833-1841), and second in Reggio Emilia, 1841-1845)) responding to queries posed through correspondence.
- Contents:
- 756.1: [Responsa, Shevat 1832, responding to a query of the thirteenth Hebrew birthday of a boy, during a leap year]
- 756.2: [Responsa, Ḥanukah 5600, regarding foods eaten for the mourner's first meal]
- 756.3: [Responsa, Tishre 1833(?), responding to Carmi's inability to update the Reggio Emilia mikveh due to rabbinical precedent]
- 756.4: [Responsa, Kislev [1831?], regarding proper methods of kosher slaughter]
- 756.5: [Responsa, 19 Tamuz 5595, regarding a case of suicide]
- 756.6: [Responsa, Kislev 5602, regarding heating and kosherizing vessels]
- 756.7: [Responsa, Heshvan 5594, regarding the kosher status of boiled vegetables from an unkosher pot]
- 756.8: [Responsa, 6 Shevat 1833, regarding the Halakhic permissibility of doing business with unkosher foods]
- 756.9: [Responsa, Erev Shabat Ha-gadol 5592, regarding a groom who wishes to abstain from the customary fasting on his wedding day]
- 756.10: [Responsa, 9 Ṭevet 5592, regarding the traditional non-kosher status of Pecorino di Filiano cheeses in Italy]
- 756.11: [Responsa, 4 Shabat Maṭot 5595, regarding the particulars of a Mikveh under construction]
- 756.12: [Responsa, Tishre 5596, regarding an outbreak of disease and related insights, and procedures to follow for the synagogue on Yom Kippur]
- 756.13: [Responsa, Tamuz 5599, regarding a tragedy mentioned previously, and a cantor who erred during the recitational liturgy].
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Fund.
- Cited as:
- Jacob Israel Carmi Collection of Responsa (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 756). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1483237347
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