[Responsa] : manuscript

Name:

Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038

Timespan:

To 1040

Date:

1100s

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Responsa -- To 1040; Responsa; Jews -- Dietary laws; Locusts; Jewish law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 fols. : non-consecutive, complete (Halper: forming outer sheet of a fascicle); damaged, erasures, faded

Rights:

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

Notes:

The responsa are not numbered but divided into paragraphs, in which the lead word ודשאלתם is in large characters.; Fol. 1r is mostly erased and faded, only the exterior half of the writing is legible. The remnant mentions the name ʹAyyash ben Menasheh, and includes the reponse of R. Ḥai to Fez on the funeral service, which appears in Halakhot of Isaac Ibn Ghiyyat (1038-1089): Shʹare śimḥah / Yitsḥaạk ben Yehudah ibn Ghiyat. Fürth, 1861, part II p.59a); see S. Abramson: ʹInyanut ba-sifrut ha-Geʾonim / Sheraga Abramson. Jerusalem : Mosad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, 1974, pp. 107-108.; Fol. 1v contains one complete responsum, on eating locusts citing R. Saʻadia Gaon, and the beginning of another on Bava batra 40a; this sequence also appears in a cluster of Responsa published by Alexander Harkavy: ha-Peles, shanah 2 [1901], p. 47.; Fol. 2 contains the end of a responsum on female minors, citing Sanhedrin 54 and Niddah 44-45, and the beginning of another on Musaf for Rosh ha-shanah. The latter is partially cited in the name of R. Ḥai Gaon, in the Halakhot of Isaac Ibn Ghiyyat, part I p. 28.; Hebrew. Hebrew

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 156

Collection:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)