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She’elot u-teshuvot yeshanot (Old Responsa): On Marital Deception
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This rabbinic responsum, a “response” to a question of Jewish law, addresses the issue of marital deception and its legal ramifications.

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Joel Sirkes

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

First Half of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Divorce, Abortion, Adultery

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Set of curved doors with carving of candelabrum, peacock-shaped vessels, and basket of fruit and flowers on right side and table with compartments, peacock-shaped vessels, and basket of fruit and flowers on left side.
Appointment of Isaiah Horowitz as Communal Rabbi
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We have accepted upon ourselves the rabbi, aluf, the gaon, our teacher and master R. Isaiah ben R. Abraham ha-Levi, of blessed memory, to serve as our av bet din [head of the court] and rosh yeshiva…

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The Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1606

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Rabbis, Justice system

Categories:

Law, Rabbinic Law, Responsa