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On the inspection of animals’ lungs by R. Mordecai Ze’ev ben Isaac Aaron Segal Ettinger. The title page has a lined border about the text, surrounded by verses and states that is by R. Ettinger and R. Joseph Saul Nathanson. There are approbations from R. Akiva Eger and R. Nahum Treibitsch. There is an introduction by the authors and then a forward. The text is divided into seven sections, the basic text in the center of the page in square letters, the commentary, Me’irat Einayim, on the sides in rabbinic type. At the end of the volume (99-105) are the glosses of R. Zevi Hirsch Adelman, Hen Tov. A small number of pages are still not completely separated. Printed on heavy paper.
R. Mordecai Ze’ev ben Isaac Aaron Segal Ettinger (1804–1863) studied under R. Naphtali Hirsch Sohastov of Lemberg and his uncle, R. Jacob Ornstein. Although renowned for his great scholarship, he never occupied a rabbinical position. He served as nasi of the Holy Land of the Austrian kolel, an honorable position always given to the greatest of the rabbis. In this capacity he did much to help consolidate the position of the Jewish community in Erez Israel. He studied together with his brother-in-law, R. Joseph Saul ha-Levi Nathanson, many joint works resulting from their 25 years of collaboration. Among them are Mefareshei ha-Yam (Lemberg, 1827), novellae and elucidation appended to the Yam ha-Talmud on Bava Kamma, by their uncle, R. Moses Joshua Heshel Ornstein of Tarnogrod; at the end of this work is included their halakhic correspondence with such contemporaries as R. Moses Sofer, R. Mordecai Banet, and R. Akiva Eger. Their remaining joint works are; Magen Gibborim, 1 (Lemberg, 1834), 2 (Zolkieve, 1839), two commentaries on the first 235 chapters of the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim; glosses to and emendations of the glosses of Mordecai Jaffe on the Talmud (published in the Romm Vilna edition of the Talmud); Ma’aseh Alfas (in the Romm Vilna edition of Alfasi),glosses on the halakhot of Isaac Alfasi and the Mordecai; Ner Ma’aravi. a commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud which includes references under the title Ein Mishpat and glosses thereto entitled Gilyon ha-Shas.
This fruitful partnership ended in 1859, R. Ettinger having published in R. Solomon Kluger’s Moda’ah le-Veit Yisrael (1859), which contained a ban against machine-baked mazzot, whereupon R. Nathanson published a contrary opinion in a booklet called Bittul Moda’ah (1859). After the rift with his brother-in-law, R. Ettinger devoted himself to study together with his son R. Isaac Aaron (Ma’amar Mordekhai, no. 58), and decided to publish responsa and novellae independently. To this period belongs his important responsa Ma’amar Mordekhai (1852), which deal to a great extent with the laws of agunah. A collection of his responsa, Shevet Ahim, has remained in manuscript. |
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על בדיקת הריאה נוסד מאת ... הרבנים ... מוהר"ר מרדכי זאב סג"ל (איטינגא) ומוהר"ר יוסף שאול סג"ל (נאטהנזאהן) ... אשר אספו ... מראשונים ואחרונים ... עם תוספת נופך ...
עמ' 4-6: הקדמה, מאת ר' צבי הירש חן טוב [אדלמאן], שהגיה את הספר: עמ' 99-105: הגהות והערות הרב מוהר"ר צבי הירש חן טוב, מהם דינים מחודשים מספר שני מאורות כת"י מגאון מוסמך חבירו של הש"ך ... עם הסכמות ר' עקיבא איגר, פוזנא, ח כסליו תקצ"ה, ור' נחום טריביטש , נ"ש [ניקלשבורג], כג אדר תקצ"ה. |
