Derushim U’Pilpulim [homilies and sermons]

KROCHMAL, ARYEH YEHUDAH LEIB BEN MENACHEM MENDEL.

17th-century

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

Unpublished manuscript of an unrecorded work. This large volume focuses upon the pilpulistic style of drush common in the 17th-century. Written by the son of R. Menachem Mendel Krochmal, author of the responsa Tzemach Tzedek (Amsterdam 1675) and one of the leading rabbis of his time, R. Aryeh Yehuda Leib (c. 1630-1700) served as rabbi of Treves and eventually succeeded his father in Nikolsburg, Moravia. As evidenced from this extensive manuscript, R. Aryeh Yehuda Leib was clearly immensely learned. Aside from this manuscript, no other scholarly material from him is known.