Lot 371
Responsa Ma'amar Mordechai – Signature and Glosses of Rabbi Moshe Freund-Grishaber (Disciple of the Chatam Sofer) and Stamps of Rabbi Moshe HaLevi Pollak Rabbi of Bonyhad
Responsa Ma'amar Mordechai, by Rabbi Mordechai Halberstadt Rabbi of Disseldorf. Brno, 1789. Only edition. Approbations of rabbis of Nicholsberg and of Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Horwitz Rabbi of Trebitsch (son of Rebbe Shmelke of Nicholsberg).
After it was published, this book was hidden and banned and is extremely rare. Already in the 1880 s, the author of Nachal Eshkol (Sefer HaEshkol Part 2 page 187, Brit Avraham Page 24) writes that the book cannot be found and he has seen only one copy. He says that the reason for this is that the rabbis of Frankfurt had burned the book because of Siman 56 where the author printed a halachic response of the Pnei Yehoshua regarding the disagreement on the matter of tum'at ohel in the main street of the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt.
On the title page is the signature of "I, Moshe ben Isaac have bought this book…". On the book leaves a number of notes in the same handwriting, some on the aforementioned response of the Pnei Yehoshua. The person who signed and the writer is Rabbi Moshe Freund-Grishaber (1797-1873), one of the leading disciples of the Chatam Sofer, son of Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Grishaber-Freund Rabbi of Paks. [See his signatures and handwriting, in The Chatam Sofer and his Disciples, pages 358-360].
After his death, Rabbi Moshe's library passed on to the Bonyhad Yeshiva headed by Rabbi Moshe HaLevi Pollak (1845-1889, The Chatam Sofer and his Disciples page 524) whose signatures in Hebrew and Hungarian are on the title page.
[6], 2-104 leaves. 20 cm. Fair condition, stains and wear, minor moth damage. Worn binding. Rare.
