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Lot #    21712
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 11:45:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kuntres Halakhah le-Ma’aseh
Title (Hebrew)    הלכה למעשה
Author    [Polemic] R. Raphael Jacob David ben Zev (Ridbaz)
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Israel Dov Frumkin
Publication Date    1910
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. [2], 7 ff. quarto 220:180 mm., wide margins, usual age and damp staining, not bound.
          
Paragraph 1    ... they made a fundraising business of shemittah... (f.2 intro.)
          
Detailed
Description
   Monograph concerning the halakhah for fruit grown in Shevi’is (shemittah, seventh year of the Sabbatical cycle) in violation of the halakhah by R. Raphael Jacob David ben Zev (Ridbaz). Such fruit is forbidden for consumption. Ridbaz reviews the pertinent halakhot and includes correspondence with leading contemporary rabbis on the subject.

Shemittah comes from the Hebrew root "Shamot" to abandon to leave, to lie fallow. The Bible Commands the Jewish People to let the land ( land of Israel ) to lie fallow. This Commandment happens every Seven year cycle, during the seventh year, the land must rest, and what grows on it, is subject to certain agricultural restrictions. The Shemittah year involves complex legal issues and deeply meaningful ideological concepts. Shemittah; the Jewish Sabbatical Year, is rooted in the bible but has other Jewish philosophical aspects such as: human dignity, Environmental aspects, trust in God, rejecting the worship of property, support of the poor. As an example the "abandonment of" (Shemittah - Shamot ) does not only have the land in mind, the bible also include debts and loans. When the Seventh year starts on The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah). Several reasons are advanced for these laws:

          
Paragraph 2    בדין פירות שביעית שנתגדלו בעבירה (דהפירות אסורין באכילה) ... קבוצת מכתבים מכבוד ... מרן יעקב דוד רידב"ז שליט"א ששלח לחכמי ורבני ירושלם ... בשנת השבתון פרט למסומן פ'ד'ו'ת'ך' ל'ע'מ'ך'

דף [2]:"פתח דבר". דברים נגד בצלאל ש"ץ ומרדכי הכהן, אשר העלילו: "אשר החו"ר ירושלם ובפרט הרידב"ז עשו שנאר גישעפט בהשמיטה". דף ו,ב: "מודעה רבה. לאפרושי מאסורא", בחתימת חמישה חברי בתי-הדין אשכנזים בירושלים ור' חיים ברלין, המכחישים "שמועה כי אופן ההפקר ... מועיל להתיר גם את הפירות שנגדלו ע"י עבודה בשביעית". בשולי העמודים נוספו הערות בחתימת הרא"ם [ר' אברהם אביש מרדכי] אייזען.

          
Reference
Description
   JE; http://www.shemittah.com/; CD-EPI 0175838
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Halacha:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica