Notebook of Largely Unpublished Talmudic Novellae by Rabbis from 18th Century Prague.

(PRAGUE).

Prague

c. 1780

Hebrew Manuscript in several hands. Contains (see below):

* R. Matithyahu Neugroschel, Novellae to Beitzah (ff. 5). Unpublished. * R. Meir Fishels ‘Mahara”m Bumsla’, Novellae to Beitzah (ff. 13). Unpublished. * Mahara”m Bumsla, Novellae to Chullin (ff. 11). Unpublished. * R. Yechezkel Landau, Commentary to Yoreh De’ah (ff. 2.5). Published. * R. Zerach Eidlitz, Novellae to Berachoth (ff. 8). Unpublished. * Mahara”m Bumsla, Commentary to Hilchoth Betziath HaPath (ff. 10). Printed in Hasbaroth Mahara”m Bumsla (Brooklyn, 1993). * R. Moshe Shapira, Novella to Avodah Zara (ff. 3). Unpublished. * R. Jonathan Eibeschutz, on Hilchoth Yom Tov (ff. 15). Largely unpublished. * R. Yonoson Eybeschütz on Hilchoth Shabbath (ff. 3). * R. Israel (?). Torah novella (ff. 20). Marvelous collection of Torah from some of the greatest minds of 18th century Prague. While Rabbis Yechezkel Landau and Yonoson Eybeschuetz require no biographical introduction, the other contributors left similarly impressive marks on Bohemian Jewry: R. Meir Fishels (1713-69), also known as Mahara”m Bumsla after his hometown, was the Rosh Yeshiva and Av Beth Din of Prague, serving on the same court as R. Yechezkel Landau, the Noda B’Yehuda. Among his students were Rabbis Eleazar Fleckeles (Teshuva Me’Ahavah) and Ya’akov Ginzberg (Zera Ya’akov). The eulogy for him delivered by R. Landau was reportedly dictated to him in a dream