Description
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.
This presentation is for the following text(s), available in the PDF file:
- Samuel Aboab's Responsum 257
- Hakham Zvi Ashkenazi's Responsum, She'elot u'Teshuvot Hakham Zvi no. 6 (1699)
Streaming Media
Start Date
22-8-2005 10:00 AM
Location
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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Cultural History Commons, History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons
Question of the Eruv in Early Modern Europe
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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.
This presentation is for the following text(s), available in the PDF file:
- Samuel Aboab's Responsum 257
- Hakham Zvi Ashkenazi's Responsum, She'elot u'Teshuvot Hakham Zvi no. 6 (1699)
