Novellae on Talmud; sermons and eulogies.

AUERBACH, AVIEZRI SELIG BEN TZVI HIRSCH

circa

N.p.

1750

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper. Additional letters and related manuscripts tipped in. Two volumes. * Vol. 1: ff. (501). * Vol. 2: ff. (205).

First volume includes Halachic and Aggadic novellae to Tractates Berachoth, Shabbath and Pesachim (each with index). On ff. 439-50 are novellae from R. Abrhaham Broda. The second volume includes Sabbath sermons, as well as eulogies, including those for for Rabbis Abraham Lissa of Frankfurt, Tevele Hess of Mannheim and the author’s father-in-law, R. Isaac Sinzheim. Also, on f. 205b, is recorded autobiographical information by the author, including the fact that both his wife and his daughter tragically died within a week of each other. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) nos. 66, 69. These manuscript volumes have not been published to date.