Anonymous. Torah Novellae on first several Chapters of Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mispat

(BING, ABRAHAM)

pre-

Germany

1850

Manuscript in Hebrew

On f.11v. the author cites a problem raised by “Harav ha-Gaon Mohr”r Abraham Binga nr”u.” One assumes the writer is a disciple of R. Abraham Bing. In his day, Bing was perhaps the most celebrated Talmudist in all Germany. Born in Frankfurt a/Main in 1752, Bing studied in his youth under Rabbis Nathan Adler and Pinchas Halevi Horowitz, together with his younger contemporary R. Moses Schreiber (Chatham Sofer). In 1798 Abraham Bing was appointed District Rabbi of Würzburg and had over one hundred communities under his jurisdiction. Many of the rabbinic leaders of the following generation were Bing’s disciples in the yeshiva he maintained in Würzburg: Rabbis Isaac Bernays of Hamburg; Jacob Ettlinger (author “Aruch la-Ner”); Nathan Adler, Chief Rabbi of England; Abraham Rice (Reiss) of Baltimore; and Isaac Dov Bamberger, who would ultimately succeed him as “Würzburger Rav.” Rabbi Bing died in Würzburg in 1841 and most of his manuscripts were subsequently lost; only his glosses on Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim were published posthumously under the title, “Zichron Avraham.” See Judah Aaron Horowitz, “The Gaon R. Abraham Bing and His Yeshivah in Würzburg,” Yeshurun, Vol. VIII, Nissan 5761/2001, pp. 760-785; E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996), pp. 39-40; JE, Vol. III, p. 215; EJ, Vol. IV, col. 1007; N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim, p. 6, A-252. Our manuscript analyzes in great depth the issues discussed in Hilchoth Dayanim, the Laws of Judges