Sefer Shut Harahsba part 3, Livorno, 1778. First Edition.
With signature on the title page הקטן אברהם בינגא סג"ל.
Another antique signature. Antique marginal notations.
The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Bing (1752-1841), leader of the entire German diaspora. A leading rabbi and yeshiva dean in Germany. He was the teacher of the Aruch LaNer and Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Bamberger. A Torah disseminator and dayan in Offenbach and Frankfurt am Main (during his tenure in Frankfurt, he was one of the close disciples of Rabbi Natan Adler, and was a close friend of Rabbi Moshe Sofer – the Chatam Sofer, who was several years his junior).
In 1796, he was appointed chief rabbi of the Principality of Würzburg, and settled in Heidingsfeld. In 1814, after the decree banning Jews from settling in the city of Wurzburg was overturned, he moved there, and relocated the rabbinic office to the city of Würzburg. Most prominent German rabbis were originally students in his prominent yeshiva, or disciples of his disciples, including: R. Yaakov Ettlinger, author of Aruch LaNer; R. Yitzchak Dov Bamberger Rabbi of Würzburg; R. Yitzchak Bernays Rabbi of Hamburg (teacher of R. Shimshon Refael Hirsch and R. Azriel Hildesheimer); R. Yehosef Schwartz, author of Tevuot HaAretz; R. Eliezer Bergmann, founder of the Ashkenazic settlement in Jerusalem and R. Avraham Reiss, pioneer of Orthodox Judaism in the United States. For his biography, see article by R. Yehuda Aharon HaLevi Horowitz: R. Avraham HaLevi Bing and His Yeshiva in Würzburg (Yeshurun, vol. VIII, Adar 2001, pp. 760-785).
[2] 94 Leaves. 30.3 Cm.
Overall Great condition, some stains and water stains, original binding damaged.
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