Of elaborate rococo design, rim engraved with lengthy Hebrew inscription from the “Bachurei Eidah” to: HaGaon Binyamin Tzvi Auerbach, Chief Rabbi of Halberstadt. Shabbos Parshath Emor, 1863. Height: 10 inches (26 cm).

LARGE GERMAN SILVER PRESENTATION GOBLET.

19th-century

Provenance: From the collection of a prominent, pre-war Frankfurt Jewish family (details of which will be provided to the successful bidder). Rabbi Benjamon Tzvi Hirsch Auerbach (1808-72), author of Nachal Eshkol, was one of the great rabbis of 19th-century Germany, alongside his rabbinic colleagues, Rabbis Samson Raphael Hirsch, R. Azriel Hildesheimer and R. Ya’akov Ettlinger. Following yeshiva studies in Krefeld and Worms and university studies in Marburg, R. Tzvi Binyamin Auerbach was appointed Landesrabbiner of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based in Darmstadt. However his strictly Orthodox beliefs caused difficulties with the liberal tendencies of his community and in 1857 he moved to Frankfurt to devote himself to full-time scholarship. In 1863 he was called to serve as rabbi in Halberstadt, a position he held until his death.