Novellae to Talmud Tractates Chulin and Moed Katan.

AUERBACH, TZVI BENJAMIN BEN ABRAHAM

N.p.

19th century

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a fine, miniscule, cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper.

After yeshiva studies in Krefeld and Worms and university studies in Marburg, R. Tzvi Binyamin Auerbach (1808-71) was appointed Landesrabbiner of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based in Darmstadt. However his strictly Orthodox beliefs often caused difficulties with the liberal tendencies of his community and in 1857 he moved to Frankfurt to devote himself to scholarship. In 1863 R. Tzvi Binyamin was called as rabbi to Halberstadt, a post he served until his death. A prominent leader of the German model of modern Orthodox Judaism, R. Tzvi Binyamin was a first rate scholar, despite controversy relating to his version of Sepher Ha’Eshkol by the 12th-century Provencal halachic authority R. Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne. See Y. Avivi, Rabbinic Manuscripts [in the] Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University (New York, 1998) no. 185. This manuscript has not been published to date.