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LOT 76:
Techelet Polemic: Ohr LaYesharim/Ptil Techelet. Jerusalem, 1891
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Techelet Polemic: Ohr LaYesharim/Ptil Techelet. Jerusalem, 1891
Ohr LaYesharim, novellae on Pesachim and several other Talmudic sugyas, accompanied by Sefer Ptil Techelet by Rabbi Hillel Moshe Meshel Gelbstein. Two title pages. Jerusalem, Y. D. Frumkin, 1891.
"Ptil Techelet, about what was printed in a sefer that showed something resembling techelet ..." Polemic work opposing the Admo"r Rabbi Gershon Chanoch Leiner of Radzyn, who identified the snail from which the techelet strand of tzitzit was dyed. With rabbinic approbations from Jerusalem rabbis opposed to dying the tzitzit strands with the newly-discovered techelet dye.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Hillel Moshe Meshel Gelbstein.
[2], 28; 58; 3 leaf. 21 cm. Lacking (most of) the last leaf. The second title page was bound after the first title page.
Fine condition. Aging stains. brittle paper. Slight tears. Not bound.
