Complete lengthy manuscript of [166] written pages, with Torah novellae and lengthy treatises of deep deliberation of sugyot in Choshen Mishpat, with much discussion of the fundmental sefarim of this part – the Sm”a, the Sha”ch and the Urim V’Tumim . [Frankfurt am Main, post-1780s]. Never printed.
The vast majority of the manuscript is positively identified as the penmanship of the leading rabbi of Germany, Moreinu Rabbi Avraham Bing, a remnant of a generation of giants – the Hafla’ah, the great eagle, Rabbi Natan Adler, the Chatam Sofer and and others.
This is a first-rate Torah discovery, a rare remnant of the author’s many chiddushim . Rabbi Avraham was a prolific writer and there is a tradition about the many works he wrote, but over the time they were lost. So far, only his glosses on the two parts of Shulchan Aruch have been published.
Rabbi Avraham started to write when he was in Frankfurt. At the same time, he served as one of rashei yeshivah and dayan in the Hafla’ah’s beit din . He also studied under Rabbi Natan Adler “HaChassid BaKehunah” and knew the young man “Moshe Sofer” – later the Chatam Sofer. Apparently thi s volume and the glosses were written over dozens of years.
It is almost impossible to find a fully complete manuscript from a leading rabbi dealing with topics continuously studied in every beit midrash . The manuscript survived intact. It is legible and even printable. It is easy to assume that if it had been printed on time, it would have become one of the fundamental sefarim on Choshen Mishpat.
Notations on the flyleaf: “This ledger belongs to the sharp gadol baTorah Rabbi Avraham Binga”; “This ledger belongs to the chacham , the rabbi, wondrous and expert in Torah … magnificent and praiseworthy, Rabi Avraham Binga, nero ya’ir …” “Frankfurt, the 8th of Cheshvan, 1780[?]”
The author shows his Torah prowess in several places, refer to teh Hebrew catalog text for several examples, and for a biography of the gaon Rabbi Avraham HaLevi Bing .
Confirmation included from the renowned expert Rabbi Yehudah Horowitz shlit”a, the expert on writings of German rabbis.
166 written pages. Leaves of various sizes – 22-26 cm.
The vast majority of the work is in Rabbi Avraham Bing’s script. Pages [38-41] and passages in [42-43 and 138] were written by another writer, unidentified. There are apparently another several individual passages written by another writer. Page [79] bears the signatures “The youth Anshel, the youth Isaac.”
Overall fine condition. Detached and partially detached leaves and groups of leaves. Aging stains and worming marks. Light wear and tears in the margins of some of the leaves. Antique binding, detached and blemished.