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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, Law, Responsa

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.
Paraḥ mateh Aharon (The Staff of Aaron Had Sprouted)
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…

Contributor:

Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1701

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Divorce, Nonmonogamy, Muslim-Jewish relations, Journalism, Law, Responsa

Categories:

Law, Responsa, Reportage
Bet Yehudah (The House of Judah)
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The Hakham Rabbi Abraham Monson, may God protect him, was a resident of Tétouan, where he was born and raised among his siblings and relatives. When he reached the appropriate age he married a woman…

Contributor:

Judah ‘Ayyash

Places:

Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Divorce, Travel, Finance, Law, Responsa

Categories:

Law, Responsa