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Question Of The Eruv In Early Modern Europe, David Katz
Question Of The Eruv In Early Modern Europe, David Katz
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
Both the responsum of Rabbi Aboab and that of Hakham Zvi Ashkenazi reflect a feature of pre-modern kehillah life almost never dealt with in scholarly literature, namely, the urban eruv, a physical boundary delineating space in which one is permitted to carry items on Sabbath, erected by the kehillah.
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- Samuel Aboab's Responsum 257
- Hakham Zvi Ashkenazi's Responsum, She'elot u'Teshuvot Hakham Zvi no. 6 (1699)