Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew. Novellae concerning Rashi’s commentary concerning “Ta’am Ke’ikar” (see Talmud Tractate Chullin ff. 98b-99a).

EGER, AKIVA.

(Posen?)

n.d

Cursive Aschkenazi script, brown ink on paper.

Rabbi Akiva Eger (1761-1837) of Posen was one of the most outstanding, Rabbinic leaders of his time. His responsa, novellae and sermons enjoyed unprecedented praise and respect, and are to this day assiduously consulted by all Jews, universally. R. Akiva Eger’s qualities of moral character, humanity, humility and justice, alongside skills of profound scholarship and leadership has created, some two centuries later, a deeply venerated aura surrounding his personality. Due to his considerable reputation, his legion of descendants (who have proliferated into Europe’s most prominent Rabbinic families), deem original handwritten material by this Gaon, to be imbued with an ineluctable level of holiness that serves as both a source of metaphysical protection and of blessing.