Sefer Ohel David, First Edition. With Additions in the Author’s Handwriting. Vienna, 1820

Sefer Ohel David, First Edition. With Additions in the Author’s Handwriting. Vienna, 1820
Sefer Ohel David – omissions and novaelle on tractates Succah and Chagiga. By Rabbi David Deutsch Av Beit Din of Nowe Miasto. On almost every leaf, in the margins, are long glosses in the author’s handwriting. The glosses are additions which the author adds to his work. Most of the glosses are in pleasant, neat and straight handwriting, in Rashi script. Two additions [page 22a, 24b] – in regular Ashkenazi handwriting. | Rabbi David Deutsch [1756-1831], Av Beit Din of Nowe Miasto [formerly a city in Hungary, currently in Austria]. The primary disciple of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, who brings 40 halachic responsa written to Rabbi David Deutsch in his book ‘Noda B’Yehuda’. He was also a close friend of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the ‘Chatam Sofer’, whose close relationship with him can be seen from the letters he wrote to him and the approbation he wrote for his book: “The righteous man, a tremendous genius… I saw wonderful things more precious than gold… lucky are we who had the merit to hear his conversation and his light… and the merit of the tzadik will protect us from all harm”. The ‘Yismach Moshe’ wrote in his approbation: “Halichot Olam Lo, which came from the mouth of the pure and holy one, the great genuine tzadik…and seek Torah from him as he is an angel of God”. The book Ohel David was printed from his novaelle on the Talmud. His novaelle were also published in the book Chomat Esh by Rabbi Menachem Eisenstadt, Facs 1906, as well as in the book Zocher HaBrit by Rabbi Asher Greenwald, Ungvar 1931. | Greenish paper, thick. Wide margins. Without a title page. Aging stains. Ownership stamps and inscriptions on the first and last page. 13-26 pages. 25 cm. | Overall condition: Good-very good.