Ashlei Ravravi - Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah.

(GRISHABER, ISAAC).

Hetz Levi Rophe

Amsterdam

1743

THE R. ISAAC GRISHABER COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE AND EXTENSIVE SCHOLARLY MARGINAL NOTES. With signature of Rabbi Grishaber on the title and extensive notes in his fine neat hand, other previous owners’ signatures on front flyleaf (including a disciple of R. Shraga Feivel Halevy Horowitz, a later Rabbi of Paks).

Rabbi Grishaber was an 18th century Hungarian rabbi well regarded in rabbinic scholarly circles. These autograph notes exhibit his wide erudition and high level of acuity. Born in Cracow he moved to Hungary in 1782. He is especially known for his opposition concerning the ruling by Aaron Choriner permitting the consumption of sturgeon. Both Choriner and Grishaber had been students of Ezekiel Landau in Prague and the dispute centered over precisely how Landau (the “Noda Beyehuda”) had adjudicated this issue. He was also on friendly terms with the Chassam Sofer and corresponded with him. When one of the Chassam Sofer’s disciples asked his master for a letter of recommendation to Rabbi Grishaber, the Chassam Sofer responded enthusiastically (See Chut HaMeshulash p. 91). His son, R. Moshe Grishaber-Freind also corresponded a number of times with the Chassam Sofer.