History:

16th - 18th Centuries CE 

Collections: R' Schachter Jewish Heritage Tour of Greece

Description

Why did the rabbanim during the early 1500's live in Tzefat and not Jerusalem? What is the nature of conferring semicha today? Why did the Mahari Beirav re-institute semicha? Why was Rav Levi ibn Habib opposed to this semicha? What cases can these musmachim judge? Why is the position of the Maharashdam, that kohanim today are safek kohanim, rejected? Is the kidushin of a Morano only rabbinic? Why did the Maharashdam ask forgiveness from his kalah? What is the position of Rav Shlomo Molcho in tying tzitzit? Does adding ticheles change the way one ties tzitzit? How did Mahari Beirav deal with the repentant Moranos versus the Abarbanel, Maharitatz, and the Maharashdam? Rav Moshe ibn Habib wrote which seforim, and is famous for which psak din?