Detailed
Description |
|
Rules and Instructions of constructing a small mikvah in one's house by R. Judah Yidel b. Israel Isaac Rosenberg (1864-1936) rabbi, prolific writer, and Torah scholar. A niddah according to Jewish law, a man is forbidden to maintain relations with his wife during and for some time both before and after her menses. Relations may resume only after the wife has undergone ritual immersion in a mikvah at the appropriate time. Procedures for calculating the intervals of time when spousal contact is forbidden rely heavily on a woman's knowledge of the stages of her cycle. Fidelity to the rules of marital separation, self-examination, and expedient immersion comprise one of the three areas of ritual obligations specifically incumbent on women (together with hallah, separating a part of the dough used to make Sabbath loaves, and hadlakah, kindling Sabbath lights). Observance of this precept was unfortunately lax prompting the current work.
R. Judah Yidel Rosenberg served as rabbi of Tarlow, Lodz, and Warsaw where he was a Rabbinic Judge. In 1913 he immigrated to Canada, where he was active part in the Jewish community. At first he served as a rabbi in Toronto and, toward the end of his life, in Montreal. Initially, he published novellae and discussions on the Talmud, responsa, and halachic rulings of period interest. Through the years he authored a compilation and translation of the book of the Zohar, a work that has become a classic still in use today. He published books on medical remedies and amulets. However it is his activities for the religious youth, by enriching the religious library with historical literature in Hebrew and Yiddish using simple vocabulary suitable for the youth that brought him fame. His most famous books are the ones with historical stories that he claimed to have discovered in ancient manuscripts in the old imperial library in Metz. Most of the books were published in Hebrew and Yiddish as well. Many doubt the validity of these manuscripts, many articles were written against these books, indeed, a whole book was published opposing the famous stories of the Maharal of Prague which he printed. Nevertheless, his works were extremely popular and widely read. |
| Paragraph 2 |
|
בו יבואר איך ... לעשות בכל בית מקוה קטן כשר לטבילה ... חובר ע"י ר' יהודה יודל ראזענבערג במהו"ר ישראל יצחק ז"ל ... מלפנים רב בעיר טארלא, ווארשא, לאדז וכעת ראב"ד בעיר טאראנטא מדינת קאנאדא ... צום סוף ... איז אויף זשארגאן [יידיש]
... דער פלאן ווי אזוי אזא הויז-מקוה'לע דארף געמאכט ווערען ...
הדפוסת על המעטפת.
בשער ספרו של המחבר "הקריאה הקדושה", שנדפס בנויארק תרע"ט נזכר ספרנו, לכן נראה שנדפס באותה שנה או לפניה. |
