Marginalia by the Gaon Rabbi Rabbi Moshe Freund-Grieshaber & Rabbi Menachem Medel Margulies Rabbi of Herincse. ...

Marginalia by the Gaon Rabbi Rabbi Moshe Freund-Grieshaber & Rabbi Menachem Medel Margulies Rabbi of Herincse. Semichat Chachamim, Frankfurt am Main 1704-1706, First Edition.

Sefer Semichat Chachamim, Part I – Birkat Hashem – Preface to Semichat Chachamim, and Part II – Kedusha UBeracha, novellae on tractate Berachot, by the kabbalist R. Naftali HaKohen Katz, rabbi of Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main, 1704-1706. First edition. Lacking first title page.

Glosses by the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Freund-Grieshaber (also known as Rabbi Moshe Paks, 1797-1873), leading disciple of the Chatam Sofer. Son of Rabbi Yitzchak Itzek Grieshaber-Freund Rabbi of Paks (possibly some of the Marginalia are from the father). After his marriage in 1815 to the daughter of a wealthy man from Gyönk, he settled there, delving in Torah and worship of G-d without needing to serve as rabbi. Several of the Chatam Sofer's responsa are addressed to him (see: Kinstlicher, HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav, pp. 358-360).

After his death, R. Moshe's library passed on to the Bonyhad Yeshiva headed by Rabbi Moshe HaLevi Pollak, rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Bonyhad.

One of the Glosses is signed : Menachem Margu[lies] of Kalin (Kalyny). He was the only Rabbi of Herincse (Horinkove).

See Hebrew description for his biography.

Good-Fair condition, starts at page 4, first 4 pages damaged affecting text, water stains, worming mostly to margins, heavy water stains to last pages, antique binding.