Hebrew Manuscript. Beith Yishai. Aschkenazi cursive Hebrew script, brown ink on paper. ff.149. Author’s name in acrostic form at end of introduction and on final leaf

WIELSTADT, SAMUEL BEN YISHAI

Alsace

c.1733

Composed on three differing paper stocks of varied proportion

Provenance: Abraham Gunzenhausen of Alsace (signature on introductory leaf) An important unpublished comprehensive commentary and novellae to the Talmud. Includes “hadran” on the completion of the Talmud. The author was apparently a disciple of Rabbi Abraham Brody of Prague and later Metz, whom he cites as “My Master” (Admor, see p.42r, 126v). The reference by Wielstadt to Samuel Edels (the MaHaRSH’A, d.1631) as “My Teacher” (Mori) is intended only in a figurative sense. Wielstadt also composed a commentary to the Pentateuch and responsa, to which he often refers. He also makes reference to the works Ir Binyamin and Or Yekoreth (p.46r), published, 1732