Complete manuscript of over 200 pages, containing aggadic novellae on chamishah chumshei Torah, festivals and other topics, in the hand of the gaon Rabbi Moshe Bunim Ginz Schlesinger.
Before us is a treasure trove of aggadic novellae by the gaon Rabbi Moshe Ginz, who was known up to this point for his tremendous help to his uncle, the rabbi of the Jewish people, in arranging his novellae and writings for print, as brought in the introduction to the book Drush V’Chiddush . Although the books by his uncle, and by his cousin, the Chata”m Sofer, also demonstrate Rabbi Moshe’s genius, and his novellae are mentioned often in their books in which Rabbi Akiva Eiger calls him “my friend, the sharp Rabbi Moshe, ” before us is a complete book of his own Torah thoughts, novellae that have apparently never been published! They demonstrate the tremendous genius befitting the nephew of the rabbi of the Jewish people.
In his novellae, he cites his father and his rabbis, for example: (page 32a) “The gaon Rabbi Avraham Av Beit Din of Breslau z”l”; (pages 34b, 36b, 52a) “Our master” – Rabbi Akiva Eiger?; (page 56b) “I heard from my father and teacher, the gaon ztz”l”; (page 57a) “I heard from the Av Beit Din” (page 64a) “from my master the ga’ava”d here” (page 68a) “I heard from the Av Beit Din of Schwerin” and more.
The gaon Rabbi Moshe Ginz-Schlesinger [d. 1857] , was a son of Rabbi Bunim Eiger, Av Beit Din of Mattersdorf, and beloved nephew and disciple of his uncle, Rabbi Akiva Eiger. Rabbi Moshe was one of the rabbis of Wieleń (near Poznań). In 1930, he was accepted as a scholar-in-residence at the kloiz in Hamburg, at Rabbi Leib b”r Shaul’s study hall. In Iggerot Sofrim , ( Michtavei Rabbi Akiva Eiger 22), Rabbi Akiva Eiger writes to his brother Rabbi Bunim about him: “… to share good tidings that [your] son, my friend the sharp Rabbi Moshe, was accepted to the study hall in Hamburg … he was here last week to speak with me before his trip.” (Refer to: Chachamei Ah”u Hamburg , 1908, p. 119)
10, 97 leaves, 16×20 cm + [9] leaves, 12×19 cm. Ashkenazic script, clear. Thick, high-quality paper.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Lacking back binding.