History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies

An Online Exhibition from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 2003-2004 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania

Responsa from Heaven.
Jacob, of Marvège, 12th/13th cent.
She'elot u-teshuvot Min ha-shamayim
2nd edition
Königsberg : Tuvyahu ha-Kohen Efrati ve-R. Yosef Bekker, [1858]

Frontspiece.

Details, bottom of fol. 3v and top of 4r. Question three, concerning the contents of the tefillin shel rosh (head phylactery) according to Rashi and Rabbenu Tam.

P. 45 of the Jerusalem 1956 edition edited by Reuben Margaliot (Yerushalayim : Mosad ha-Rav Kuk, 717 [1956 or 1957] ). Notes to question three, illustrating the varying opinions of Rashi and Rabbenu Tam as to the dispositions of the texts and scrolls in the head phylactery.

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