Chiddushim [novellae]

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. With index prepared by the author’s son, R. Aviezri Zelig Auerbach.

Dense volume with much varied content, including: Commentary to the Passover Hagadah, novellae to the Talmud and Midrash, along with sermons for weddings, festivals and the weekly Torah reading. With eulogies for such notables as Rabbis Jacob Emden (f. 241a), Abraham Broda of Frankfurt (f. 243a), Mordechai Halberstadt of Dusseldorf and Nathaniel Weil of Karslruhe (f. 245a). Also contains novellae of other authors, “recorded here for posterity.” See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) no. 63. This manuscript has not been published to date.