Siftei Da'at – Prague, 1610 – Signature and Glosses of Rabbi David Deutsch Av Beit Din of Nowe Miasto (Ir-Chadash)

Siftei Da'at – Prague, 1610 – Signature and Glosses of Rabbi David Deutsch Av Beit Din of Nowe Miasto (Ir-Chadash)
Siftei Da'at on the Torah, by Rabbi Shlomo Efraim of Luntschitz [author of Kli Yakar]. Prague, 1610. Printed by Moshe son of Yosef Bezalel Katz. First edition. On Leaf 3 is the signature of "David Deutsch". On the book leaves are several glosses, some long, in his handwriting. Rabbi David Deutsch (1757-1831, Ishim B'Teshuvot Chatam Sofer, p. 113), author of Ohel David. Renowned Torah scholar, disciple of the Maharam Barabi in Pressburg and of the Nodah B'Yehuda in Prague. He served as Av Beit Din of Jamnitz, Frauenkirchen and Dunajská Streda. From 1810 until his death, he served as Av Beit Din of Nowe Miasto. Some of his Talmudic novellae was printed in his Ohel David books. He customarily wrote glosses on various books and some of them were published. He exchanged a prolific halachic correspondence with the leading Torah figures of his times, such as the Nodah B'Yehuda, the Chatam Sofer and the author of Yismach Moshe. The Chatam Sofer wrote an approbation on his book: "That tsaddik, holy Jew, genius… I saw in it (the book) wonderful things…We are privileged to merit his words and his light…his merit should protect us from all harm". 106, 108-121 leaves. The last three leaves are disorderly bound and upside-down. 28 cm. Fair condition. The title page and first leaves are damaged and lacking (restorations with glue). Wear and tears, stains.