Mitzvat Nashim Melamdah [ Precetti da esser imparati dalle donne hebree ] – Halachahs of niddah , challah, candle-lighting and derech eretz . Venice, 1652. Rare book; the copy in the National Library was recently acquired from the Valmadonna Collection.
Work composed especially for women by Rabbi Binyamin Aharon Selnick, one of the leading poskim of his generation and author of Shu”t Mas’et Binyamin . He wrote this book in Yiddish as he saw a great need for a book for women in their own language. This is the book in Italian translation with words and titles in Hebrew. Translated into Italian by Rabbi Ya’akov ben Elchanan Halperin.
The blank pages at the end of the book bear two handwritten supplements from the time of printing: A prayer for a woman’s ritual immersion [“May it be His will … that just as I have been commanded to purify my body by immersion …”], and a lengthy passage in Italian.
[12] 100 pp. 18 cm. Lacking [2] leaves of indices at the beginning of the book.
Fine condition Dismantled binding, without a spine.