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Lot #
17254
Auction End Date
3/13/2007 11:24:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Mei Menuhot
Title (Hebrew)
מי מנוחות
Author
R. Moses Nehemiah Kahanov
City
Jerusalem
Publisher
Abraham Rottenburg
Publication Date
[1866]
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Revised edition. 16, [16] ff. octavo 175”105 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound inconbtemporary boards, rubbed.
Detailed
Description
On the laws of keeping food items warm and cooking on Shabbat by R. Moses Nehemiah ben Meshullam Feibush Kahanov. It also includes other halakhot for Shabbat and festivals. This is the second edition, with the earlier printing (Warsaw, 1861) now out of print and no longer available. This edition has numerous additions and is accompanied by Palgei Mayyim, on the laws pertaining to traveling by ship on Shabbat. The title page is undated and Friedberg assigned it a date of 1884. Shoshanna Halevy proves that that date is incorrect based on R. Kahanov’s itinerary. R. Moses Nehemiah ben Meshullam Feibush Kahanov (1817–1883), Jerusalem talmudist. He was born in Belorussia but after his marriage at the age of 15, settled in Petrovice where at the age of 18 he was appointed assistant to the local rabbi. Some years later, he became rabbi of Khaslavich, a city noted for its scholars. In 1864 he set out for Jerusalem. On his arrival, after a journey of six months, he was appointed head of the Ez Hayyim yeshivah, the most important in Jerusalem, remaining in this position until his death. Kahanov was remarkably progressive for his time and environment. He appealed for the founding of industrial enterprises, a daring proposal for that time. He even consented to the proposal of Sir Moses Montefiore to introduce the teaching of the vernacular, Arabic, in his yeshivah, but was obliged to abandon the proposal in the face of pressure from extremist elements. One of the first of the old yishuv to speak only Hebrew, he was also one of those who encouraged settlement outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, building a house for himself in Nahlat Shivah. Among his publications were: Erez Hefez (1884), on laws of terumah and tithes; Hukkot Olam (1886), on mixed species (kilayim); Mei Menuhot (c. 1860) on the laws of the sabbath, to which was appended Palgei Mayim, giving rules for those traveling by ship on the sabbath; and Netivot ha-Shalom on the Shulhan Arukh (pt. 1 (1858, 18752), pt. 2 (1861)). He applied himself particularly to the question of the application of the laws of the sabbatical year which had become of practical importance with the establishment of the Jewish agricultural colonies, and in this connection published Shenat ha-Sheva (1881). The eulogies he delivered on the deaths of Baron Asher Rothschild and Sir Moses Montefiore were published. His Sha'alu Shelom Yerushalayim (1867) on the state of Jerusalem and its citizens was published three times. His will was published in 1968 (Siftei Yeshenim, Jerusalem) together with a responsum on Jerusalem and a brief biography.
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... נדפס כעת עוד הפעם עם הוספות. ונלוה אליו קונטרס פלגי מים, והוא כל דיני המפליגים בספינה בימים ובנהרות. וכל פרטי דיני ההולכים בספינות, ורפסודות ביום השבת עם כל המסתעף לזה...
Reference
Description
BE mem 1585: Halevy Jerusalem p. 56 no. 125; CD-EPI 0141092
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Israel:
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Subject
Halacha:
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Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
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