Venue: Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park

Halacha:

Birchas Kohanim,  Teshuvah 

History:

19th Century CE,  20th Century CE 

Machshava:

Three Weeks 

Collections: America 250

References: Kiddushin: 72A ,  Gittin: 57B  

Description

Part of an "America 250" series on the Torah of early American rabbis. Rav Yosef Eliyahu Fried, author of Ohel Yosef, which may be the first sefer of teshuvot published in the US. Concluding his response to this question: May a kohen who violates Shabbat perform nesiat kappayim and count toward a minyan? And his derashah (appropriate for the Three Weeks) in response to the Russian/Ukrainian pogroms of 1905-1906.