(Author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, 1804-86). Autograph Manuscript Signed, written in Hebrew.

GANZFRIED, SHLOMO

circa

Ungvar (Uzhorod), Austro-Hungary

1870

Draft of a Halachic responsum concerning the status of milk that stemmed from cows who had been fed Chometz by their Gentile owners during Pesach. Contains edits such as lines crossed out as well as entire paragraphs added, with notations marking where within the text they were to appear within the final draft. With: Draft of the original correspondence from R. Ganzfried to R. Chaim Sofer of Munkatch (the Machaneh Chaim) summarized within the responsum itself. And: First page of another letter by R. Ganzfried, regarding the topic of Rotzeh BeKiyumo, Chametz, and borrowing items from non-Jews on Pesach.

A fascinating insight as to how rabbis prepared and edited their responsa before dissemination. Parts of the present responsum were printed in abridged form; see Ganzfried’s Lechem Hapanim (within his Kitzur) nos. 114 and 117. The final version of the responsum has been published in Otzroth Hasofer 19, 2008