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Rare! Autograph of 21 Pages Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Zeev Orenstein the Son of the Yeshu'ot Yaakov of Lviv with References to His Father - Some of It not Published - Kuntres of Chidushei Torah handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Zeev Orenstein the only son of the famed Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Meshulam Orenstein Av Beit Din of Lviv, author of the Yeshu'ot Yaakov.  21 densely written pages. Its first part is on Orach Chaim Siman 329 on the subject of ”אין הולכין בפקוח נפש אחר הרוב”. Between the lines (on the page paginated as 4), he refers to his father, writing: ” שוב [ראיתי] לא”א [לאדוני אבי] בישועת יעקב באה”ע סי' ד' שהעיר בזה...”. These Chidushim were apparently not printed.  Further in the manuscript, a responsum ”בעניין יבמה שנדרה הנאה מיבמה... מה שהקשה אותי הרב ר' זיינוויל מבראד...”. Towards the end of it (on the page paginated as 23), he again refers to his father, writing: ”והנה כבר דברתי בזה עם א”א [אדוני אבי] הגאון דלדעתי...”.  This responsum was printed in Yeshu'ot Yaakov Even HaEzer Section III (following Siman 166). There is is written that this responsum was sent by Rabbi Mordechai Zeev to Rabbi Simchah Nosson [Alenberg Av Beit Din of Lviv]. Apparently, on these leaves he copied his responsm.  21 written pp. and several blank ones. 17X11 cm. Stains. Minor blemishes to the edges of the leaves. Good overall condition. Bround in a new, impressive leather binding.  Enclosed is confirmation by the expert Rabbi Yitzchak Yeshaya Weiss Shlita from approx. a decade ago.  The Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Zeev Orenstein (1789-1837) a leading sage of Galicia and Lviv. The son of the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Meshulam - Amud Hora'ah, author of the Yeshu'ot Yaakov.  Already as a youth was renowned as an Iluy with vast knowledge of the Shas and Poskim. Rabbi Mordechai was famed for his Halachic knowledge and some considered him even graeter than his famed father. His deep comments and responsa were inetgrated in the Yeshu'ot Yaakov books.  After declining many offers for rabbinical positions in important communities, he finally acceded to the request of the community in Przemyśl and accepted the offer to serve as the city's Rav. However, at the peak of his strength and influence, Rabbi Mordechai Zeev was suddenly called to his eternal rest on the 17th of Cheshvan, 1836, before reaching the age of fifty and before he could formally assume the yoke of the rabbinate, while his great father was still alive. His untimely passing left a vast void in the Galician Torah world, and upon his gravestone in Lviv, emotional eulogies were engraved, mourning the 'great tragedy' of this fallen cedar. His son, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Orenstein, continued his path by publishing his grandfather's works alongside his father's original Chidushim, thereby commemorating his scholarly legacy for generations to come.