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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.

Contributor:

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.
Mishpat u-tsedakah be-Ya‘akov (Judgment and Righteousness [Are] in Jacob)
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It has been a long, sorrowful time that Mr. Solomon Ha-Kohen of Tangier (may God protect him) has been living here with us in Fez (may God protect it), upset angry, and bitter. We did not know what…

Contributor:

Jacob Ibn Tsur

Places:

Fez, Morocco (Fes, Morocco)

Date:

1744

Subjects:

Marriage, Adultery, Justice system, Community, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

Law, Responsa