Lot 248
Leaf of Torah Novellae by the Maharam Schick
Leaf of Torah novellae in the handwriting of the Maharam Schick, on the treatise of a kotevet (measure, dried fig) with its seeds (1831).
Rabbi Moshe (Maharam) Schick (1807-1979, Otzar HaRabbanim 15194), an outstanding Torah genius, amongst the greatest rabbis of his generation and a leader of Hungarian Jewry. At the age of 14, he joined the Chatam Sofer's yeshiva and within a short time became one of its foremost students. He served many years as rabbi of Yeregin near Pressburg, later serving as rabbi of Chust, where he established a yeshiva and taught renowned disciples until his death. He left a vast amount of Torah works including responsa, sermons, novellae on the Talmud, on the 613 mitzvot etc. He was among the fiercest rivals of the reformists.
Leaf approximately 17 cm. Poor condition, very damaged with lacking text, lack at bottom of leaf.
