Chiddushim [Talmudic novellae and responsa]

ISSACHAR DOV BER BEN ARYEH JUDAH LEIBUSH OF ZLOTCHOV (M’GEZA TZVI).

Poland-Russia?

18th century

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in more than one cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. * With description of manuscript contents prepared by Dr. Shlomo Zucker, Jerusalem.

An important manuscript of novellae by a leading Chassidic master. Much of the material was published in the author’s work “Bath Eini” (1798), however not all. Also present here is a draft of a responsa (ff. 27-8) which is likely an AUTOGRAPH in the author’s hand. A foremost student of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev and the Maggid of Mezritch, R. Yissachar Dov Baer (c.1735-1795) was appointed rabbi of Zlotchov. Shortly before his demise he moved to Eretz Israel and is buried in Safed (see M. Wunder, Encyclopedia LeChachmei Galicia, Vol. III, pp. 289-91).