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Ovadia Yosef letter, to Yosef Shlomo Triki, 1976 September 22 : typescript.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yosef, Ovadia, correspondent.
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Samaritans.
- Berit milah.
- Rabbis--Jerusalem.
- Rabbis.
- Rabbis--Israel--Ḥolon.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 20th century.
- Responsa (Jewish law)
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2026 April 15.
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : paper, 27 x 20 cm
- Production:
- Jerusalem, 1976 September 22.
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts.
- Other Title:
- Text begins: Hareni me-asher ḳabalah mikhtavaṿ ha-yeḳarim, ṿe-odot ha-sheʼelah im mutar la-mol et ha-Shomronim ...
- הריני מאשר קבלה מכתביו היקרים, ואודות השאלה אם מותר למול את השומרונים ...
- Language Note:
- In Hebrew.
- Summary:
- Typed letter of responsa by Ovadia Yosef (then Rishon le-Tsiyon, or Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel), responding to Yosef Shlomo Triki, rabbi in Ḥolon regarding halakhic permissibility of circumcising the Samaritans; Yosef replies that it is permissible only on weekdays and not on the Sabbath (referring to his printed responsa, Sheʼelot u-teshuvot Yabiaʻ omer, Yoreh deʻah volume 2, chapter 19). Letter with fourteen typed lines, with four lines of greeting and three lines of signature; written on Yosef's official stationery.
- Cited as:
- Ovadia Yosef Letter to Yosef Shlomo Triki (Misc Mss Box ** Folder **). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1596679559
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