Chiddushim, Shailoth U’Teshuvoth [rabbinic novellea and responsa]

ABRAHAM JOSEPH MOSHE BEN JACOB OF HARMILOV.

Poland

19th century

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper.

Autograph(?) unpublished manuscript. Novellae with many important responsa of leading rabbinic figures of the early 19th century. The manuscript includes intellectual innovations to the Talmud (especially Tractate Eiruvin), as well as Halachic discussions with input from R. Yehoshua Heschel Babad of Tarnopol, R. Yaakov Lorbeerbaum of Lissa and R. Ephraim Zalman Margoliouth. Born in Podheitz, R. Avraham Yoseph Moshe Podhotzer (c. 1770-1836) served as Rabbi of Harmilov (Galicia) and was in regular correspondence with the leading rabbis of the day, including R. Yoseph Shaul Nathanson and R. Yaakov Orenstein. His only published work is Imrei Moshe (1866), which carried the approbation of R. Chaim Halberstam of Zanz who describes the author as a “Gadol Hador.” For a biographical outline of the author see Mandelbaum, Yeshurun, Vol. 17 (2006) pp. 736-et al.