Hebrew). Kehiloth Moshe. With numerous commentaries including Ralbag, Chizkuni, Sforno, Imrei Noam, Kometz Mincha

Rabbi Moshe Mainz (1805-86) was an important contributor to the direction taken by the Orthodox community of Frankfurt a/Main. A Torah scholar of no small stature, Mainz was one of the original eleven signatories to the petition sent to the Frankfurt Senate requesting the right to form an independent Orthodox community. Later however, when the Reform element of Frankfurt acceded to certain basic requests of the Orthodox, Mainz felt that “Austritt” or secession from the mainstream was no longer called for, and from then on sided ideologically with the Würzburger Rav, Rabbi Isaac Dov Bamberger, against the man who had been invited to lead the secessionist community, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996) pp. 121, 155-6 and 166