Sefer Mateh Yisaschar By Rabbi Yisaschar Berman Segal of Furth.
Only Edition, Furth, 1792.
Signed on the title page by the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Lazi Heilbut. He was born in Berlin in 1740 to his father Rabbi Joseph Heilbut who was the son of the Kabbalist Rabbi Lazi Chosid of Halberstadt, after whom he was named. He had an ailing childhood, but nevertheless was a child prodigy. In his teens he studied in the yeshiva of Rabbi David Tebele Scheuer in Bamberg. He married Beila, the daughter of Tauderes Munk, a respected member of the kehilla in Posen. Then he studied for two years in the yeshiva of Rabbi Gedalia Tiktin, rabbi of Schwersenz close by to Posen, and his father-in-law supported him.
In Posen he taught students, then was appointed as Dayan there. At that time Rabbi Raphael Cohen was rabbi of Posen. When Rabbi Raphael Cohen was accepted as Rabbi of the threesome kehilla AHU, Rabbi Eliezer Heilbut followed him there. In 1784 he was appointed as dayan of Wandsbek. In 1799, after Cohen left his position as rabbi of AHU, Heilbut was appointed as chief justice of the kehila. During the Napoleonic Wars, he was the liaison between AHU and Napoleon’s general Louis Davout. He died in Hamburg in 1814, and because of the siege on the city he was buried on the grounds of the synagogue there.
He frequently corresponded with leaders of the generation, including the Chasam Sofer (see: Ishim B’Tshuvos Chasam Sofer, pp. 78). He authored Mishnas DeRebbi Eliezer (Hebrew: משנת דרבי אליעזר).
Inscription & signature of his son Rabbi Eizik Berlin (1792-1865). One of Hamburg’s leading Torah scholars, Rabbi Eizik’s glosses and annotations on Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim’s Machzor were published in the Hanover edition 1837-1838.
60 Leaves. 33.1 Cm.
Overall in Good condition, light age stains, old paper repairs to title page, synagogue library stamps, later binding.
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