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Title

Moreh la-shoḥṭim be-derekh sheʼelah u-teshuvah.
[מורה לשוחטים בדרך שאלה ותשובה.]

Authors

• Valabrègne, Yitsḥaḳ de
  דוואלברינוה, יצחק
• Moldovan Family Judaica Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Moldovan, Joseph, donor
• Moldovan, Susan, donor

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 494
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977523746303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1100423510

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

1772

Place

Carpentras?

Summary

This is a manuscript, likely once a teaching handbook, for the purposes of imparting and studying the laws of shehitah (ritual slaughter), kisuy ha-dam (the covering of the blood after the slaughter of birds and wild beasts, 'ḥayot ṿe-ʻofot') and ṭerefot (deformities which disqualify the kashrut of a slaughtered animal). The format of the text is one of question and answer; for example, why is a delayed slaughtering motion (shehiyah) prohibited (f. 11v); what is the law if one discovers the trachea cut or removed (f. 13v); if one slaughtered one hundred fowl or one hundred beasts, of how many [of these] must he cover their blood and how many blessings must he recite (f. 15r); what types of lung adhesions (sirkhot) are permitted (f. 19r). Many of these questions are found in the Talmud and halakhic codes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

22 leaves : 215 x 140 (170 x 95) mm

Collation

Paper, 22; 1²⁴ (-23,-24); modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto, 1-22.

Support

Paper

Binding

In original paper wrapper.

Layout

Written in 19-20 long lines ruled in hardpoint; an indentation follows each heading of "sheʼelah" and "teshuvah," and the last line of each entry is centered.

Script

Written in a Franco-Italian square script, with most of the manuscript being vocalized.

Provenance

• Former owner inscriptions: effaced inscription in ink (front cover); 'kisah' twice in Hebrew letters in black crayon (inside front cover); en tano [?] Commence vendredi au soir in ink (? inside front cover upside down); Citoyen Abraham (back cover).
   
• Presented to The Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joseph and Susan Moldovan (C'76).
   

Subjects topical

• Shehitah
• Jews--Dietary laws
• Questions and answers--Jews
• Jews--France--Carpentras--18th century
• Comtat Venaissin (France)--History--18th century--Sources

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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