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This communication addresses two factual errors identified in a previously published article by Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin in Conservative Judaism. The author employs textual analysis and historical verification to correct misattributions regarding Jewish legal practices and rabbinic literature. The first correction concerns the chronological impossibility of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor of Kovno advising conditional divorces during the Russo-Japanese War (1905), as this rabbi died in 1896. The author establishes that Rabbi Shalom Mordecai Schwadron of Brezan was the actual authority who addressed the agunot situation during this conflict, citing Teshuvot Maharsham as documentary evidence. The second correction challenges the interpretation of Talmudic tractate ordering, specifically the sequence of Gittin and Kiddushin in Seder Nashim. Through reference to Professor Albeck's Mishnah edition, the author demonstrates that tractate arrangement follows numerical organization based on chapter count rather than thematic concerns about marital hardships. Gittin's nine chapters logically precede Kiddushin's four chapters according to this systematic principle. These corrections emphasize the importance of scholarly accuracy in rabbinic historical research and proper understanding of Mishnaic organizational methodology.

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Published 1966
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