Novellae to Talmud and Mishnah.

AUERBACH, TZVI HIRSCH

N.p.

18th century

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Additional letters and related manuscripts tipped in. Two volumes. * Vol. 1: Tractate Berachoth and the Mishnah Orders of Moed and Nashim. At end is an index prepared by the author’s son, R. Aviezri Zelig Auerbach (1726-67) ff. (319; collated: ff. 13-331). * Vol. 2: Mishnah Orders Nezikin and Kodshim. At end is an index prepared by the author’s son, R. Aviezri Zelig Auerbach. ff. (331).

Scion of a noted rabbinic dynasty, R. Tzvi Hirsch Auerbach (1690-1778) was the Dayan of Brody, Galicia. Due to persecution he was forced to flee in 1710, finding sanctuary in Vienna. In 1763 R. Tzvi Hirsch was called to serve the venerated community of Worms where he remained until his death. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) nos. 61, 62. These manuscript volumes have not been published to date.