Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah - with Be’er Heitiv.

(GRISHABER, ISAAC).

Hetz Levi Rophe

Amsterdam

1760

THE R. ISAAC GRISHABER COPY, WITH HIS EXTENSIVE SCHOLARLY MARGINAL NOTES. With signature of R. Grishaber on title-page and extensive notes in his fine neat hand, plus a lengthy note on the front flyleaf.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1787.

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 Rabbi Ezekiel Landau (the “Noda Beyehuda”) in Prague and the dispute centered over precisely how Landau 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.