[Ethical will] : manuscript
- Alternate Title
- Tsaṿaʾah
- Creator
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 119
- Form
- books
- Date
- between 1200 and 1299
- Language
- Hebrew
- Subject
- Wills, Ethical
- Charity -- Early works to 1800
- Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800
- Jewish ethics
- Rabbinical literature
- Charity
- Extent
- 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v):) : complete, attached (forming outer sheet of fascicle [Halper]); damage
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- Text breaks denoted by a punctus, plus 2-5 spaces.
- The fragment contains an essay on the merits of charity. The author often opens a paragraph with the address: בניי. The author relies heavily on Talmudic and Midrashic texts, introduced as א[מרו] חז"ל, or נמצא באגדה.
- Hebrew. Hebrew
- Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 119
- Provenance
- Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
- Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
- Adler.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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