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Lot #    22938
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 11:13:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shtar mukkat ez by R. Isaiah Schorr
Title (Hebrew)    שטר מוכת עץ מה'ר ישעי' שור
Author    [Ms. - Women - Hasidic]
City    Jassy
Publication Date    1840?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description
   [1] p., 154:220 mm., light age staining, ink on paper, Ashkenazic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description
   Shtar mukkat ez by R. Isaiah b. Moses Schorr (1777-1879), rabbi of Jassy and other prominent communities. R. Schorr served in the rabbinate for over 70 years, his responsa and novellae fill several volumes. He was born in Mikulintsy, Galicia into a distinguished rabbinical family. He was a pupil of R. Aaron of Karlin; R. Israel of Kozienice, R. Menahem Mendel of Kosov and R. Zevi Hirsch of Zidachov. He served in Horodanka followed by other communities finally accepting the Jassy rabbinate in 1850 where he remained until his passing. An erudite scholar, he wrote several volumes, and was consulted the world over for his rabbinical opinions.

Rare document issued for six year old girl, that due to accidental reasons she is a mukkat ez (literally, "injured by a piece of wood"; Ket. 1:7). The term is applied to a woman whose hyman has been ruptured due to an accident. Virginity in halakhah is not necessarily a maiden whose hymen is intact. She can be legally regarded both as a virgin with a ruptured hymen and as a non-virgin when it is intact. The former applies when she can claim, according to Rabban Gamaliel and R. Eliezer, or prove, according to R. Joshua b. Hananiah, that the rupture was caused by an injury. The legal disability of a non-virgin expresses itself in the fact that her ketubbah is only 100 zuz instead of the 200 of the virgin (Ket. 1:2). This document restores the ketubbah value to 200 zuz.

          
Reference
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   Wedner v. 5, col 94-97
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Rumania
  
Subject
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica