Bequest to the heirs of the ‘Pnei Yehoshua.’

(FALK, JACOB JOSHUA BEN TZVI HIRSCH)

Frankfurt a/Main

1818

RESIDUAL ESTATE OF THE P’NEI YEHOSHUA. R. Jacob Joshua Falk (1680-1756) author of ‘Pnei Yehoshua,’ served as rabbi of Frankfurt between the years 1741-51. According to the terms of the present document: “These 50 Reichsthaler belong to the heirs of the Gaon, author of Pnei Yehoshua, who served as Av Beth Din here (i.e. Frankfurt), according to the will of my father-in-law, the pious Leib Emmerich - with the exception of the heirs of the rabbi of Hanover, who though being heirs of the aforementioned rabbi (i.e. Pnei Yehoshua), have no claim to this, having already received their share.” The allusion is to the heirs of the Pnei Yehoshua’s son, R. Aryeh Leib (1715-89), author Pnei Aryeh, who served as rabbi of Hanover from 1761 until his death. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 1155-58.