Legal document: T-S 8.223

Legal document T-S 8.223

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T-S 8.223
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Judaeo-Arabic

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Two legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman and a Rabbanite groom (perhaps the couple on recto?). The wife agrees not to force her husband to eat meat other than that slaughtered according to Rabbanite tradition, and to allow him to keep Rabbanite festivals. It is signed by the cantor ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver in the [Great Sanhedrin]. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (uncertain)

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T-S 8.223 1v

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1v
Gershon Weiss, "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon Ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138)" (PhD diss., n.p., 1970).

Verso

  1. שלא הוא משחיטת הרבנים או הכריחה על אכיל[ת ]
  2. על עצמה שלא תחלל עליו את מועדיו ושתשמ[ ]
  3. קדמנא אנן חתומי מטה וקנינא מן מרור [ ]
  4. עלי הכהן החזן ביר יחזקאל הכהן החבר בס[נהדרין ]

T-S 8.223 1r

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