Novellae to Shulchan Aruch.

AUERBACH, AVIEZRI SELIG BEN 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: Yoreh Deah. ff. (241). * Vol. 2: Choshen Mishpat. ff. (184). Includes autograph notes by the author’s son, R. Abraham Auerbach (1763-1845).

Born in Worms, R. Aviezri Selig Auerbach (1726-67) studied in Edenkoben (Rhineland) and was selected to marry the daughter of the head of the yeshiva, R. Isaac Sinzheim (father of R. David Sinzheim, later, first Chief Rabbi of France). Also a student of R. Jonathan Eyebescheutz, R. Aviezri Selig served the rabbinate of Bouxwiller (Ger. Buchsweiler), Alsace until his death at the young age of 41. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) nos. 67, 68. These manuscript volumes have not been published to date.