R. Dr. Pinkus Fritz Frankl (1848-1887) delivered this address for Shabbat HaGadol (the Sabbath preceding Passover on which it is customary to deliver a lecture detailing the laws of Passover), March 24, 1877. He was a German rabbi; born at Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, Jan., 1848; died at Johannisbad Aug. 22, 1887. After attending the yeshiva at Presburg, Frankl prepared himself for the rabbinate at the seminary in Breslau, and at the same time studied Orientalia at the university of that city, graduating (Ph.D.) in 1870. In 1875 he became the secretary of the Wiener Israelitische Allianz, and in 1877 succeeded Abraham Geiger in the rabbinate of Berlin. Four years later R. Dr. Frankl added to his rabbinical duties those of teacher in the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. At that time he became the associate of Grätz in the publication of the "Monatsschrift." He wrote: "Ein Mutazilitischer Kalam aus dem X. Jahrhundert," first printed in the "Sitzungsberichte" of the Vienna Academy of Science, 1872; "Studien über die Septuaginta und Peschitta zu Jeremiah," 1872; "Karäische Studien," 1876; a series of articles in "Ha-Shahar," 1876-77, under the title "Ahar Reshef le-Bakker," being a criticism on Pinsker's "Likkute Kadmoniyot"; "Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte der Karäer, 1887; "Predigten," 1888. Frankl also published some piyyutim of Eleazar ha-Kalir, under the title "Piyyute ben Kalir," in the "Zunz Jubelschrift" (Hebrew part, pp. 201-207), Berlin, 1884.