[Letter, 1769 April 2, Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein) to David Berlin]. = [מכתב, כ"ד אדר-שני תקכ"ט, פרידריכשטאט (שלזוויג-הולשטיין) אל דוד בערלין].

Contributor:

Berlin, David ben Loeb, -1771 (addressee); Lamm, Louis, 1871-1943 (former owner)

Name:

Segel, Aharon Mosheh Zalman, Ortsrabbiner (Friedrichstadt), active 1730?-1770?

Timespan:

18th century

Date:

1769

Description:

This is a letter written to David Berlin, Sunday 24 Adar [II] 5529 (2 April 1769) by Aharon Mosheh Zalman Segel, Ortsrabbiner (rabbi of a city or town with ritual inspection requirements to his position) in Friedrichstadt, a town in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) then under Denmark; the rabbinical position Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek had authority over Friedrichstadt's rabbinical position. David ben Loeb Berlin, addressee, had sent an earlier letter asking Segel to appear after Passover with his slaughtering knife for an inspection, and Segel replies (in this letter) that he is quite surprised at the sudden request, as he had been slaughtering and overseeing Kosher standards for forty years in the town; he additionally was offended at the request that he arrive with it personally and not merely a messenger with the knife (which probably was more typical for rabbinical kosher oversight) as he is clearly to be tested for knowledge as well as his proving of his Kosher standards for slaughter. Segel ends the note with a greeting and regards from "the widow of David L.D." (Langdorff?).

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Sold by Winner's Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 121 (May 5, 2020) lot 423 as part of the archive of David ben Loeb Berlin (-1771).

Subject:

Jews; History; Rabbis; Segel, Aharon Mosheh Zalman, Ortsrabbiner (Friedrichstadt), active 1730?-1770?. Knowledge and learning; Rabbis -- Germany -- Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein) -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Rabbis -- Germany -- Hamburg -- 18th century -- Correspondence; Jews -- Germany -- Dietary laws -- 18th century; Jews -- Germany -- Hamburg -- 18th century -- History -- Sources; Jews -- Germany -- Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein) -- 18th century -- History -- Sources

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sources; Correspondence; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 18th century; Legal correspondence; Correspondence artifacts; Manuscripts, European; Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper; 123 x 190 (102 x 168) mm

Geographic Subject:

Germany -- Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein); Germany -- Hamburg; Germany

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. document.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Layout: Written in fifteen lines (letter text) with an additional line above; one line of postscript below signature.; Script: Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script in the hand of Tsevi-Hirsch ben Elḥanan of Altona.; Decoration: Crosshatched underlining below signature.; Origin: Written in Friedrichstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, north Germany.; Item mounted on blue paper.; Hebrew.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Room, CAJS Rar Ms 559b

Collection:

David ben Loeb Berlin correspondence