[6], 208; pp., folio, 324:190 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, old hands. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.

Novellae by R. Baruch b. Joshua Ezekiel Feiwel Fraenkel-Teomim (1760–1828), rabbi in Poland and Moravia. R. Frankel-Teomim studied under R. Liber Korngold of Cracow, known as "Liber Harif," and R. David Tevele of Lissa. On the death in 1778 of R. Naphtali Herz Margolies, the av bet din of Wisznice, he was appointed his successor and served in this office until 1802. In that year he was appointed rabbi of Leipnik (Moravia), remaining there until his death. In Leipnik he founded a yeshivah which became renowned. Among his pupils were R. Ezekiel Panet, author of the Mareh Yehezkel, and R. Hayyim Halberstamm, later his son-in-law (resp. Ateret Hakhamim, EH no. 9). During R. Fraenkel-Teomim's younger years Hasidism began to spread in Poland and Galicia; at first he belonged to the circle of its opponents but later his opposition gradually diminished. Among the outstanding scholars with whom he was in contact may be mentioned R. Moses Sofer (ibid., HM nos. 12–15), with whom he was on intimate terms, R. David Deutsch (ibid., OH nos. 2,3), R. Ephraim Zalman Margolioth (ibid., EH no. 21), and R. Mordecai Banet of Nikolsburg. R. Fraenkel-Teomim saw his main task in the strengthening of his yeshivah and the education of many pupils. He did not devote himself to the same extent to the writing of books, for fear of dissipating his time. Only individual pamphlets by him are extant. These were written by his pupils, who noted down his novellae and homilies. Among the first to collect his teachings and publish them were his son R. Joshua Hoeschel and R. Hayyim Halberstamm. They published his Barukh Ta'am (1841), a selection of his novellae to which R. Halberstamm added glosses. R. Fraenkel is often referred to by the name of this book. Among his other works: Margenita de-Rav (1883; 2nd ed. with additions, 1957), a work on aggadah arranged in the order of the weekly scriptural readings, published by Menahem Eliezer Mahler from a manuscript in the possession of the author's grandchildren; Barukh she-Amar (1905, 1966), novellae on many tractates and talmudic themes.

R. Fraenkel-Teomim left glosses written in the margin of his books of the rishonim and aharonim, and there is a list of 53 such works. His numerous glosses on the Shulhan Arukh (OH, 1836; HM, 1860; YD, 1865; EH, 1904) under the title Imrei Barukh are highly regarded. His glosses to the Babylonian Talmud were published first in the Lemberg edition of the Talmud of 1862 and thereafter in all later editions; to the Jerusalem Talmud in Vilna in 1922; and to the Mishnah under the name Mishnot Rav in Lemberg in 1862. His Derushei Barukh Ta'am (edited by B. S. Schneersohn and E. Heilprin, 1963) contains homilies for the festivals, and eulogies. Other works remain in manuscript.

His responsa and pilpulim on talmudic themes are based on the rishonim, and penetrating deeply into their meaning he arrives at the halakhah. Although he indulged in pilpul, a simple answer was more important to him than casuistic exercises. Even though he showed himself in his responsa to be a great authority he mentions in various places that he "fears to give directives" (Ateret Hakhamim, EH 18, 22). In certain cases he did not wish to rely on his own opinion and sought the consent of other outstanding scholars for his view, stressing: "I am afraid to give expression to new ideas" (ibid., YD 2:24).

Bound with Yalkut haRo`im, R, Simeon Bezalel Neiman (Przemysl 1897).

Hebrew Description

[חידושים בסוגיות הש"ס], שחבר... ר’ ברוך תאומים פרענקיל זצללה"ה, שהיה אבד"ק לייפניק..... עם הגהות דברי חיים... והדפסתיו מחדש... אני... ישראל עקיבא בערנשטיין מסאניק... בהשתדלות... מוה’ שמעון בצלאל ניימאן נ"י מוכר ספרים בעיר טארנאוו...

בראש הספר הקדמת בן המחבר, ר’ יהושיע העשיל, והקדמה מאת חתן המחבר ר’ חיים האלברשטאם.

ר’ חיים כותב בין השאר: "אחרי רואי כי באו הדברים מפוזרים, פעם בדרך חקור דין ופעם בדרך חידוד ופעם דרך דרוש ואין להם קשר, ואמרתי אחבירה אותם... אפס כי הוצרכתי פעם להוסיף פעם לגרוע... לעת ההכרח שניתי כאשר הי’ נראה לדעתי... נתערבו הדברי’ יחד". ‬

מלבד חידושיו של ר’ חיים המעורבים בתוך חידושי המחבר, באות גם הגהותיו בשולי הדפים.

נכרך עם:

ילקוט הרועים  הוא אסיפות דיעות התנאים והאמוראים... שהוציאו הראשונים וגדולי האחרונים ... דעת כל אחד ואחד לאיזה מן הצדדים דעתו נוטה ... עם כל חילוקי... השיטות... נקבצו ובאו... בסדר א"ב... חברתי... שמעון בצלאל בהרב... מו"ה מאיר צבי נ"י בהרב... מו"ה ישראל ניימאן זצלה"ה דומו"ץ דק’ קראקא... [א]- (ב). ‬

[א]: דפוס זופניק, קנאללער עט האמערשמיד, (הסכ’ תרנ"א). [11], ה-סו דף.

ב: מהדורא תנינא מהנשאר אצלי בילקוטי) וגם פתיחה משיב נפש בכמה סוגיות הש"ס. דפוס זופניק, קנאללער עט וואלף, 1897. [1], ד, סז דף.

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000159956; EJ; S. M. Chones, Toledot ha-Posekim (1910), 123; B. Fraenkel-Teomim, Barukh she-Amar (1966), introd. 13–28 (biography).