Sefer Shaʻar Efrayim
Subtitle: mi-sheʼelot u-teshuvot
By: leha-rav ... Efrayim mi-bet Aharon Kahana ... mi-ḳ.ḳ. Ṿilna ... asher zarḥah be-kamah ḳehilot ḳedoshot ʼor Torato ... uleva-sof yamaṿ nitḳabel le-rav ule-moreh le-ʻi.ha-ḳ. Yerushalem ... ṿe-aḥar peṭirato ḳam beno ha-ḳaṭan Yeʼudah ... le-ḳayem mile de-aviṿ ... ṿe-zakhah le-seder ḥibur zeh ... be-tokh ʻi.ha-ḳ. zot Yerushalayim ... ṿe-neged 4 Ṭurim meyusadim ... le-4 shaʻarim, Shaʻar O.ḥ., Shaʻar Deʻah, Shaʻar Nashim, Shaʻar ha-Mishpaṭ sedurah ṿe-ʻasah maftaḥot le-shaʻarim ...
Contributors: Duschinsky, C. (Charles), 1878-1944, former owner; Galante, Moses ben Jonathan, 1620-1689; Blokh, Mosheh ben Uri Sheraga, printer; Menahem Man ben Isaac Jacob, of Prague, compositor; Yom Tov Lipmann ben Menahem Man, of Prague, compositor; Yehudah Aryeh Loeb ben Ephraim; Ḥabib, Moses ben Solomon ibn, approximately 1654-1696; Rofe, Meʼir; Rapoport, David, ha-Kohen, active 17th century
Publisher: ʻa.y. ha-meḥoḳeḳ b.ha-r. R. Mosheh bar Uri Sheraga zal mi-mispaḥat Blokh
Published: 1688
Place of publication: Zultsbakh
Language: heb; arc
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Responsa
Other titles: Sheʼelot u-teshuvot; Shaʻar Efrayim
Notes: Title romanized.

Publication date from chronogram: "ṿe-tehi ha-teḥilato ba-yom 3, yom she-neʼe. bo shene paʻamim ki ṭov, 8 Tamuz de-hai shata 'LeKheN ʹSaMeaḤ' [448; Tuesday, 6 July 1688]."

Decorated title of each section.

Includes introduction and ḳunṭres by author's son, Yehudah Aryeh Leb.

Colophon reads: "naʻaseh ṿe-nigmar ʻa.y. av u-beno ha-ʻosḳim bi-melekhet ʻavodat ha-ḳodesh Menaḥem niḳra Man bar Yitsḥaḳ Yaʻaḳov zal mi-toshve ḳ.ḳ. Prag u-bara ke-deʻa de-avuhe Yom Ṭov ha-mekhuneh Lipman ben k.ha-r.R. Menaḥem Man Shaliṭ zetser mi-ḳ.ḳ. Prag."

Includes approbations of rabbis of Jerusalem: Mosheh b.k.mo.ha-r.R. Yehonatan Galanṭi, Mosheh n. Ḥabib, ʻOvadiyah Aharon Ḥayun, Avraham Tsemaḥ, Yaʻaḳov Molkho, and Ḥiya Avraham b.k.mo.ha-r.R. Aharon Di Boṭon.

Includes approbations of rabbis of Hebron: Meʼir b.k.mo.ha-r.R. Ḥiya Rofe, Aharon Yitsḥaḳ n. Saʻid, Neḥemiyah Danino, Daṿid ha-Kohen, and Mordekhai b.k.mo.ha-r.R. Ḥiya Zabi.

Includes approbations of rabbis of Safed: Yitsḥaḳ Shalom, Shabetai Molkho, Shimʻon Goyuzo, and Uriʼel Alajem.

Includes approbations of rabbi of Mantua: Mosheh ben Mordekhai Zakhot; and of rabbis of Prague: Binyamin tsaʼir Ṿolf ... b.ha-gaʼon ... ha-Rosh Shapira, Shemuʼel Helman ben mo.ha-r.R. Avraham, Ur Sheraga Ṿaibash b.mo.ha-r.R. Eliʻezer mi-bet Ḥalfon, Shelomoh Zalman ben k.ha-r.R. Mashil, and Yosef ben k.mo.ho-r.R. Tsevi.

Abramsky, VII no. 562

Vinograd, Sulzbach no. 27

Hebrew Bibliography, no. 000111190

Text in Hebrew and Aramaic.