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Lot #    17151
Auction End Date    1/23/2007 1:14:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Reshima She’elah
Title (Hebrew)    רשמי שאלה
Author    [Only Ed. - Women] R. Jacob Joseph b. Samuel Spira
City    London
Publisher    S. & B. Spira
Publication Date    1934
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 23, [8], 41 pp. octavo 216:144 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Two independent works published and bound together on the subject of Mikva’ot and discourses by R. R. Jacob Joseph ben Samuel Spira. The first work is entitled Reshima She’elah and deals with the issue of the permissible manner of building a mikveh; It also includes an admonition concerning respecting the honor of the gaon, av bet din of Tarnipol, author of the responsa Havazelet ha-Sharon. The title page informs that the author was a grandson of the Benei Yissachar of Dinov, descended from the Ropczycer, maggid of Kossnitz and from the No’am Elimelekh (R. Elimelech of Lyzhansk). There is an introduction, followed by the text in a text. It begins that the Haredim in London wanted to make a new mikveh in that city that would be completely kosher without any reservations, complying with all possible stringencies, avoiding possible problems found in other mikv’aot in the city. There were those who wished to make the mikveh and the adjoining bor with rain water using a barzel-button and other enumerated details. R. Spira writes that when he saw the work he was unable to agree because although there were prominent contemporary rabbis who approved the use of cement in this manner, and he continues to explain his position. Reshima She’elah is a scholarly exposition, encompassing the halakhot and responsa of numerous rabbis on the subject of mikva’ot. The second part of the volume has its own title page and is called Ma’amar has-Sha’ar ve-ha-Tov. It is comprised of three discourses beginning with a lengthy essay Shabbat Teshuvah.

Reshima She’elah is not recorded in the Bet Eked Sefarim and it appears that this is the only edition of the work.

          
Paragraph 2    מאמר הישר והטוב לענין אם מותר לבנות דפנות המקוה ע"י אייזענבעטאן... ואזהרה ע"ז [על זה] מכבוד הרב (דוד מנחם מאניש באבד)... האבד"ק טארנאפל שליט"א... מאת... ר' יעקב יוסף שפירא שליט"א... (דפוס "האנדלאווא", פשעמישל),

ספירה שניה, עם שער מיוחד: מאמר הישר והטוב; דרוש לשבת תשובה... ועוד שני מאמרים נתוספו עליו: א. מאמר יקרא דשכבי (ממילי דהספידא ... על... אור ישראל מטשארטקוב). ב. מאמר מעיני הישועה (בדברי ישועה ונחמה).

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0171406
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Responsa:    Checked
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica