Tag: shohet

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Deed of appointment for a kosher slaughterer Shemuel [surname lost]. Location: Cairo. Dated: [5]288 AM, which is 1527/28 CE. The term of the appointment is two years with a monthly salary of 40 medins. (information from Dotan Arad's editions.) MCD.
Letter sent from Acre shortly after it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104, in which a merchant describes to his parents the terrors of the war, as well as the usefulness of his servant in such a situation. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 132)
The judge (dayyan) Moshe is asked to approve Sheikh Ashaq (Issac) as a butcher (Shohet). VMR