78-page booklet handwritten by the gaon Rabbi Pilta Epstein Segal – disciple and assistant of Rabbi Yedidyah Tiah Weil, with novellae and sermons in the order of the Torah portions and annual holidays, combined with Talmudic and halachic novellae. Beautiful, clear script, with pretty calligraphic flourishes. Table of contents at the end. The manuscript is dated in several places, throughout the months of 1804.
The source of this manuscript is from the library of the sacred Kabbalist Rabbi Zekkel Leib Wormser, the ‘Ba’al Shem’ of Michelstadt, and was passed down through his descendants to this day.
This manuscript contains several mentions of prominent rabbis:
On leaf 27 – ” However, I heard in the name of the gaon Rabbi Netanel Weil … ”
Page 33b: ” I heard from the gaon Rabbi Moshe son of the famous gaon Rabbi Shmuel, av beit din of Amsterdam (!)…”
Leaf 38: – “I heard in the name of the gaon Rabbi Yosef Steinhardt [ av beit din of Furth, author of Zichron Yosef , Furth, 1773].
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Pilta b”r Moshe Segal Libold-Epstein .
39 numbered leaves, 78 written pages. 33 cm.
Moderate condition: Stains, tears and many missing parts in the first and last leaves. Not bound, many leaves are detached.