Birchath Ya’akov [collected novellea to Torah and Talmud]

FRANKEL, JACOB BARUCH BEN URI LIPMANN

Kaliv (Nagykallo, Hungary)

19th century

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

UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. The volume includes novellae to the Torah and innovations to several topics of the Talmud found in Tractates Pesachim, Beitzah, Shevu’oth and others. R. Ya’akov Baruch Frankel (d. 1863) studied under R. Yoav of Mattersdorf, R. Tzvi Hirsch Heller of Budapest and in 1813 joined the Yeshiva of R. Moshe Sofer (the Chasam Sofer). Possessing of independent means of support from his wealthy father- in-law, R. Ya’akov spent his life immersed in Torah study. Throughout his writings, R. Ya’akov cites his teacher, the Chassam Sofer, indeed, several of the later’s responsa are addressed to him (see M. Kinstlicher, Ishim B’Teshuvoth Chatham Sofer (1993) pp. 193-4).