Beschreibung:

Or Yisrael, questions and answers by Rabbi Israel Lipschitz Kleve, 1770. "Printed in the new printing press of Kleve". Most of the book deals with the polemic surrounding the Kleve Get which raged throughout the Jewish world in its times. R. Israel Lipschitz Rabbi of the city of Kleve (grandfather of the author of Tiferet Yisrael on the Mishnah) arranged a get (divorce) for a couple from the city of Bonne. The husband who was somewhat insane escaped from Germany to England fearing death (or due to persecution phobia), and on his way divorced his wife in the city of Kleve (adjacent to the German-Dutch border). Frankfurt and Manheim sages invalidated the get claiming that the husband was not fit to give a get ("Get Shoteh") and they emerged with trenchant proclamations against the Kleve rabbi. Conversely, most of the generation's leading rabbis (the "Sha'agat Aryeh", Rabbi Yitzchak of Hamburg, Rabbi Shaul of Amsterdam and his uncle Rabbi Ya'akov Emden, the "Nodah M'Yehuda" etc.) supported the ruling of Rabbi Lipschitz, claiming that the husband was considered sane and fit to grant a divorce bill. The Jewish world of those days seethed from this polemic. Leaves 31-32 are responsa from R. Aryeh Leib, Rabbi of Hanover, R. Yitzchak of Hamburg and a caustic article opposing Frankfurt scholars. These leaves were omitted from most copies and were partially printed on one leaf with variations. Both these leaves exist in this rare copy. In several places, the sharp expressions are crossed out with ink and paper clippings with printed corrections are glued onto some of the erasures [apparently erased in the original copy by the publisher who was Rabbi Lipschitz's son]. 66, 69-120 leaves. 21 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Fine binding, with leather spine. The only Hebrew book printed in Kleve.