Physical Description

See Hebrew below, folio, 384:245 mm., light age and damp staining, wide margins. A good copy bound in recent boards, rubbed.

Detailed Description   

Novellae to tractate Pesahim.

R. Eleazar b. Eleazar Kallir's (1728–1801) father died before his birth, and he was therefore given his father's name. In 1759 he was appointed rabbi of Zabludow, and from there proceeded to Berlin where he lectured in the college of the wealthy R. Moses b. Isaac Levy. He was appointed rabbi of Rechnitz and head of its large yeshivah in 1768, and in 1781 rabbi of Kolin near Prague. R. Kallir was highly regarded by his contemporaries. R. Azulai says, "he has the reputation of being sharpwitted and erudite," while R. Baruch Jeiteles states that "after the death of R. Ezekiel Landau, he was the sole remaining authority in the country." His first work, Or Hadash, on the Pentateuch, was an appendix to the Kotnot Or of his grandfather, R. Meir Eisenstadt, which he published under the title Me'orei Esh (Fuerth, 1766). Under the same title he subsequently published commentaries on tractate Pesahim (Frankfort on the Oder, 1771, and often republished) and on Kiddushin (Vienna, 1799); he also wrote Havvot Yair he-Hadash (Prague, 1792), sermons and eulogies; Heker Halakhah (Vienna, 1838), responsa. His books met with a wide acceptance and are quoted by his contemporaries. Other works remain in manuscript.

Hebrew Description   

ביאור... על כל מסכת פסחים.

[2], יא,יא-יב,טו-לח, [2], לח-נא, נג-סג,סז-סח,סה-פט דף.

על-פי פראנקפורט דאדר תקל"ו, עם ארבע ההסכמות הראשונות ועם חתימותיהם של המסכימים האחרים, בהשמטת חידושיהם של חתני המחבר ושל המגיה.

בשולי דף [2, א]: מתג ורסן... שיש ת"י הסכמות חדשות... לא הצגנום פה...

... חידושי הלכות עם חידושי פוסקים... דלה דלה... ר' אלעזר (קאליר) נ"י בהרב... אלעזר זצלה"ה אשר כעת הוא אב"ד ... רעכניץ ... במדינת הגר, ובמדינת פולין לפנים היה אב"ד ... זאבלודאווא... חלק ב

Reference

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000161381; EJ