Controversy Regarding the Kashrut the Corfu Etrogim: Group of Books Including an Unknown Compilation

Controversy Regarding the Kashrut the Corfu Etrogim: Group of Books Including an Unknown Compilation

Group of [5] books bound together + separate compilation.

* Etz Hadar, deliberation on etrog-related topics by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, located in Jaffa and the colonies. Jerusalem, 1907. First edition.

Regarding the virtues of etrogim from the Land of Israel and the disqualifications of hybrid etrogim.

[2], 2-10, 16 pp, 17-62 leaves.

Bound with:

* Pri Etz Hadar - anthology of letters from the rabbinic leaders of our generation praising the etrogim of the Holy Land and cautioning distance from the etrogim of Greece and Corfu. Published by Shlomo Marcus of Krakow. Krakow, 1900.

[4], 48 pp,

Bound with:

* Tochachat Meguleh, opposing a booklet published in Vilna in 1875 ... called Hora'at Heter - that same year - on the etrogim of Corfu, by Moshe Ra"m, Reish Metivta in the Kovno community. Mainz, 1876.

Polemic composition opposing rabbis who permitted the use of etrogim from Corfu. The author wrote anonymously, but it is known that he was Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rabinowitz. First, edition, rare.

[4], 126, [4] pp.

Bound with:

Divrei Chachamim - regarding the protective boundary for the prohibition of Corfu etrogim, including letters from rabbinic leaders, by Moshe Pritzker. Berdichev, 1891. 26 pp. Compilation unknown in the Bibliography.

Collection of letters printed in the HaTzfirah newspaper and collected here in a special compilation. 15 letters, including letters from Rabbi Yochanan of Rachmastrivka, Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector and others. The compilation is not listed in Mif'al HaBibliographiah and is not found in the National Library.

Bound with: Kuntress Pri Etz Hadar - compilation about the controversy about the halachic suitability of the etrogim from the Land of Israel, written by Rabbi Binyamin Beinish, son of the gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant, rabbi of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 1878. Uncommon.

32 pp. Sh. HaLevi, Sifrei Yerushalayim HaRishonim 311.

Additionally:

Pri Etz Hadar, 1908-1909. Laws related to the etrog by Rabbi David HaKohen of Vilna, Jerusalem, 1908. 16 pp, Lacking the calendar for the 1908/9 year [תרס"ט].

Various sizes and conditions. Overall fine condition.