Physical Description

[2] pp., 270:190 mm., light age staining, ink on lined stationary, neat Ashkenazic rabbinic script, signed, and dated.

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Responsa on the issue of marriage to a women who was widowed three times by R. Pinchas b. Isiah Epstein (1887-1969) Chief Judge of the Ashkenazim in Jerusalem. R. Epstein was born Grajewo and emigrated to Jerusalem in 1903. An erudite scholar, he wrote many works and responsa. Several of his works were published and many responsa appeared in periodic rabbinic journals.

קטלנית - killer wife. According to a Talmudic sage if a woman was married to one husband who died and to a second one who also died, she is not permitted to marry a third husband for fear of his life. There is, however, another Talmudic sage who holds that only after the death of three husbands is she prohibited from marrying a fourth. Most post-Talmudic decisors of the law rule according to the more stringent view that the prohibition begins after only two deaths, not three. In modern times the query is posed to a competent rabbi for resolution.

Reference

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/killer-wife-in-jewish-law-and-lore