Tur Yoreh Deah

(RAPP, MOSHE).

Zev Wolf ben Hagaon Zalman Mirles

Berlin

1702

Many signatures and inscriptions of previous owners on the title and front flyleaves, including the communal leader Feivschiff Katz and his son-in-law, R. David, son of "the Great Dayan Rabbi Moshe Rapp (Homburg) may his light shine." Eleven leaves interleaved with important manuscript comments in the name of Rabbi Moshe Rapp, written in a clear Ashkenazic script in the hand of his son R. David Rapp

Vinograd Berlin 32

Rabbi Moshe Rapp (d. 1762) was one of the great German rabbis of the 18th-century. R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz in his eulogy (published in Ya'aroth Devash) calls him "Zekan ha-dor, muvhak ba-Torah, mamash lo hiniach kemotho be-chol geliloth Ashkenaz" ("the elder of the generation, excellent in Torah, who left no one of his stature in all the states of Germany"). R. Moshe Rapp served as Supreme Head of the Frankfurt Beth Din during the tenure of R. Jacob Joshua Falk as well as Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt, 1741-51. The learned manuscript notes contained in this volume are written in the hand of R. Moshe's son, R. David (later Rabbi of Markbreit) and were composed in his father's life-time. Most of the comments, written with great erudition and depth, are direct quotes of his father's analysis: "My father the Gaon asked…my father the Gaon answered…" Occasionally the son provides his own novellae