of opinions and decisions, "She'elot u-Teshubot" (Venice, 1549), has been preserved. To this work was added an appendix entitled "Sheḥiṭot u-Bediḳot," containing regulations for slaughtering and for the examination of slaughtered cattle. These rules have been regarded as authoritative by later rabbis, have run through seventy-one editions, and have been the subjects of various commentaries and additions. References Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 1258-1265; Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, No. 99, p. 558; No. 385, p. 570; Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael; Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 1061; Grätz, Gesch. viii. 309 et seq., 313 et seq. 15th-century German rabbis 15th-century deaths Year of birth unknown People from Weil der Stadt