Manuscript, novellae on Talmudic topics and various halachic subjects, by R. Zecharia Mendel of Lissa (Leszno), with many Torah thoughts from leading Torah scholars. Leslau (today: W?oc?awek, Poland), 1810. The manuscript contains dozens of novellae, scholarly analyses, difficulties and Torah thoughts, in the names of prominent Torah scholars, including: R. Yehonatan Eybeschutz, R. Akiva Eiger, the Chatam Sofer, R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdychiv, R. David Tevele of Lissa, R. Yom Tov Lipman Heilprin the Kedushat Yom Tov, R. Tzvi Hirsh Levin Rabbi of Berlin, and more. At the top of the first page: "With the help of G-d, Leslau, Erev Rosh Chodesh Shevat 1810". Most of the novellae are presumably by R. Zecharia Mendel of Lissa, colleague and friend of R. Akiva Eiger, one of the rabbis of Lissa and subsequently rabbi of Leslau [see below]. Written in an orderly copying, apparently by his son, within the year following his passing. The writer added references, notes and glosses of his own. A letter containing Torah novellae from R. Akiva Eiger was copied, word for word, on p. 13b, which he concluded with: "…may G-d grant him being inscribed and signed for a good year and merit him to delve in serenity in Torah and Halacha for the sake of Heaven, so is the entreaty of his loving friend Akiva". The copyist adds afterwards: "I found this amongst my father's writings in the aforementioned scholar's handwriting". To the best of our knowledge, this responsum is hitherto unpublished. Further Torah thoughts from R. Akiva Eiger appear in another place (p. 6b: "I heard from… in the name of the great scholar Rabbi of Pozna?"). Torah thoughts in the name of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdychiv appear on p. 14a: "I heard in the name of the rabbi of ?elech?w who is now the rabbi of Pinsk…" (R. Levi Yitzchak left ?elech?w due to the Mitnagdim's harassments, and went to serve as rabbi of Pinsk in 1776. In 1785 he moved from Pinsk to Berdychiv). As far as our research has shown, these thoughts have never been published (they do not appear in Chiddushei Kedushat Levi, Bnei Brak 1988, which contains a compilation of his novellae and halachic decisions). Teachings by R. David Tevele Katzenellenbogen Rabbi of Lissa and father of R. Zecharia Mendel, appear twice (p. 2b: "I heard this from one of my acquaintances in the name of the famous Gaon, and I later found it in my father's writings in the name of his father"; p. 9a: "copied from my father's writings in the name of his father"). Furthermore, the manuscript contains dozens of thoughts, difficulties and novellae heard from and in the name of prominent scholars of that generation, including: R. Yehonatan Eybeschutz (p. 10b: "I heard in the name of R. Y. of Prague Rabbi of Hamburg…"), R. Yom Tov Lipman Heilprin, author of Kedushat Yom Tov (p. 1b: "I heard from the rabbi of Kapyl"), R. Meshulam Zalman HaKohen – Maharzach, author of Bigdei Kehuna (p. 8a: "and I heard from… in the name of the rabbi of F?rth who said…"), the Chatam Sofer (p. 13b: "and R. Moshe of Pressburg raised the difficulty…"), R. Tzvi Hirsh Levin Rabbi of Berlin (p. 4b: "What I heard from the Rabbi of Berlin…"), R. Yehoshua Zeitlin of Shklow (p. 8a: "I heard the following difficulty in the name of R. Yehoshua of Shklow…"), R. Meshulam Feivush HaLevi Horowitz of Kremnica (author of Mishnat Chachamim, father-in-law of R. Avraham the Malach and mechutan of the Maggid of Mezeritch. P. 12a: "R. Feivush Kremnitzer said over a difficulty in the name of a certain scholar…"). Also mentioned: R. Naftali Hertz Rabbi of Zhovkva, R. Leib of Horki (later in Vilna), "R. M. son-in-law of the rabbi of Berlin" (presumably R. Yaakov Moshe son of R. Shaul of Amsterdam), "R. Chaim Yonah" (presumably R. Chaim Yonah Teumim of Breslau), R. Meir Weil Rabbi in Berlin, "the rabbi of Sokal", "the rabbi of Piaski’ of Zamo??", "the rabbi of G?og?w" (presumably R. Itzikel Hamburger), R. Avraham Abele Brotchiner of Brody, "the son-in-law of R. Chaim Sandeuer (Sanzer?), who is n

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