Head of the Beit Din of Hechingen and the region. 18th-19th centuries
* “Shulchan Aruch – Yoreh Deah, ” with “Be’er Heitev” and “Eshel Avraham” – Amsterdam 1771.
* “Shulchan Arcuh – Choshen Mishpat” with “Be’er Heitev” – Amsterdam 1771. In the “Yoreh Deah” section is his signature on the title page and glosses on the sheets.
At the end of “Choshen Mishpat” section are new interpretations and notes on the last page and on an attached page. On the page before the title page is a long and moving description of the danger and recovery of his daughter after giving birth to her daughter in 1813.
Rabbi Leib Hoch (1750-1820) was a student of “HaNoda B’Yehuda” of Prague (Rabbi Yehezkiel Segel Landau) and a close friend of his son, Rabbi Shmuel Segel Landau, with whom he deliberated and corresponded about halacha with great respect (see responsa of “HaNoda B’Yehuda, ” part 2, “Yoreh Deah, ” 81 and 204). In 1784 he was elected rabbi of Hechingen, and later of the region. He was also the Head of the Kol Yaakov Beit Midrash founded by the Czar’s advisor Rabbi Yaakov Kaula. His composition “Minchat Yehuda” includes a detailed discussion of questions presented by Napoleon to the “Sanhedrin” and its answers in manuscript – see attached material.
Original leather binding, Very fine condition.