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Lot #		11995
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Title Information

Title (English)

Yoseph Tikveh

Title (Hebrew)

יוסף תקוה

Author

[Machine Mazzot] R. Z. Joseph Rosenfeld

City

St. Louis

Publisher

Bernitz and Goldman

Publication Date

1903

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

Firtst edition. [1], 76, [5] pp., 213:157 mm., extra wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled paper bords, rubbed. Book is in original state as issued in 1903 without addendums of 1907.

Detailed
Description

Allowing the use of machine-made Passover mazzot. In about 1857, the first matzah-baking machine was invented in Austria, beginning a heated controversy that raged for half a century. The newly invented machine kneaded the dough and rolled it through two metal rollers from which it came out thin, perforated, and round. It was then placed in an oven. As the corners of the dough, cut to make the matzot round, were re-used, it was feared that the time elapsing until these pieces of dough were used again might allow them to become leavened. A later machine was developed that produced square matzot so that there would be no leftovers. Other subsequent improvements in the machinery speeded up the entire process of production, leading to a general acceptance of the modern method. Initially, though, many distinguished rabbis raised their voices in protest against the new machines, including the Hidushei Ha-Rim, the Avnei Nezer, R. Hayyim of Sanz, and R. Solomon Kluger of Brody, while other equally respected rabbis, such as the Ketav Sofer as well as the author of this book, permitted its use. R. Kluger, in a letter to R. Hayyim Nathan and R. Leibush Horowitz of Cracow, Galicia, where the machine was already in use, prohibited the eating of the machine-made matzot,especially for the matzot mitzvah of Seder night. This letter and similar pronouncements by other rabbis were published under the title Moda'ah le-Bet Yisrael (Breslau, 1859). In rebuttal, R. Nathanson published Bitel Moda'ah. One of R. Kluger's most telling arguments was that the opportunity given to the poor to earn money for their Passover needs by working in matzah bakeries would be denied to them, as the use of machinery required fewer manual workers. R. Nathanson asserted that if concern need be expressed about the displacement of the hand-bakers, the same solicitude should be shown to scribes whose replacement by the printing press had been universally accepted. R. Nathanson similarly refuted his opponents other arguments. The views of R. Nathanson and those who sided with him have been accepted by most Jews.

Paragraph 2

בו יבוארו דיני מצות הנעשות ע"י מכונות שקורין מאשינין איך יהיו מותרים לאוכלם בפסח. מאתי... זכרי' יוסף ראזענפעלד, רב לאגה"ק בסאנטלואיס ...

[3] דף: מכתב מהפראפעססאר ( Arthur W. Greeley) מוואשינגטאן אוניווערזיטי שבפה סאנטלואיס [מיום 15 בינואר 1903]... מכתב מהפראפעססאר (F. W. Hodge) מסמיטהסאני אינסטיטוט שבוואשינגטאן, מיום 27 בינואר 1903. משני המכתבים, באנגלית עם "העתקה" לעברית, "יוצא שהדבר ברור שאין האויר מתקרר כלל ע"י המנפה (>עלעקטריק פען<)... ולפרקים אדרבא יכולה ג"כ למהר את החימוץ קצת". ראינו שני טפסים: האחד בבית הספרים הלאומי בירושלים ובו כל ההסכמות וכן שני הדפים כט-ל שנפסלו על-ידי המחבר, אך לעומת זה נתלשו ממנו דף כז-כח, מט, לט. הטופס השני במוסד הרב קוק, בלי דף ההסכמות מתרס"ז ובלי דף כט-ל הראשונים.

Reference
Description

CD-EPI 0167104; Not in Deinard

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20th Century:

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Characteristic

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Language:		Hebrew

Manuscript Type

Kind of Judaica