(MaHaRa”M Esh). Panim Meiroth [responsa and novellae on Zevachim]

EISENSTADT, MEIR

Shlomo Proops

Amsterdam

1715

FIRST EDITION. Verso of opening and closing blanks contain important scholarly notes attributed to RABBI AKIVA EGER, copied from the Panim Meiroth "presently in the possession of R. S[hlomo E[ger]," plus additional marginalia noting Warsaw's Tlomatchka Street synagogue (once home of an important library)

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1065

The author (c. 1670-1744) began his Rabbinic career in Szydlowiec, Poland. He later settled in Worms where he was appointed head of the yeshivah. Following the occupation of Worms by the French in 1701, he moved to Prossnitz, Moravia, where he served as rabbi. In Prossnitz, R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz was among his prime disciples, indeed R. Meir raised R. Jonathan as a member of his own family upon the death of the youngster’s father. In 1714, R. Meir received the call to minister to the city of Eisenstadt and its “seven communities" and gained particular fame there as the MaHaRa”M Esh (short for Eisenstadt ). As a world reknowned authority, he corresponded with R. Abraham Broda of Frankfurt, R. Gavriel of Nikolsburg and R. David Oppenheim of Prague. See EJ VI, cols. 549-50 R. Chaim Leib Yudkovsky served as a member of the Vaad HaRabbanim of Warsaw, His father-in-law was R. Samuel Zanvil Klepfish, the Rosh Beth Din of Warsaw