Letter to a rabbi from Rabbi Nachum Streisand, a shohet (ritual slaughterer)
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Title:
Letter to a rabbi from Rabbi Nachum Streisand, a shohet (ritual slaughterer)
Description:
Letter from Rabbi Nachum “Avak Poreach” Streisand, residing in the town of Farbach, Germany, to his teacher Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher in Graetz (Grodzisk Wielkopolski) , 1865. The main concern of the letter is an inquiry about a complex halakhic problem concerning the ritual slaughter of a fowl. The writer himself served as a ritual slaughterer for 25 years, and a rabbi for 8 years, but has never before been confronted with such an issue. (Rabbi Streisand was born in Posen in 1819, had been a student of Rabbi Akiva Eiger, and in 1874-1878 served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel-Judea in San Francisco, California.)