Unprinted Manuscript!
Handwritten Chiddushim
by Rabbi Lipman Weil,
Son of the Korban Nesanel
A full manuscript of commentary on Tanach, Moadim and chiddushei halachah by Rabbi Lipman Weil of Prague, son of Rabbi Nesanel Weil, author of ‘Korban Nesanel’.
This manuscript was never printed; Genazym has no information about other compositions written by this Gadol.
Rabbi Eliezer Lipman
Weil was the son of Rabbi Nesanel Weil, author of ‘Korban Nesanel’. As his father’s prime disciple, he drew his knowledge and brilliance from his father, and the latter mentions him both in his sefer ‘Korban Nesanel’ (Beitzah Ch. 2:12) and chiddushim on Shas. Rabbi Nesanel Weil describes his son as “My beloved, my son, an illustrious genius in Torah and fear of heaven” (Anthology of Shu”t and Letters, Beth Medrash LeRabbonim, New York) and “My son, a [paradigm of] Torah…fluent in Shas, Moreinu Harav Lipman” (Chitzei Giborim vol. 7 p. 507).
The Korban Nesanel was blessed with six brilliant and righteous sons, and he charged each one with the goal of attaining absolute fluency in one of the Shishah Sidrei Mishnah. Rabbi Lipman was assigned Seder Kodshim which is one of the most difficult and intricate sedarim. In one of his father’s letters, he instructs his son to send him a chiddush or kushya on Seder Kodshim.
Rabbi Nachum Travitch, Av Beis Din of Nikolsburg quotes Rabbi Lipman’s writings: “I saw in the writings of the brilliant rabbi, the pious chassid, Moreinu Harav Lipman Weil” (Shalom Yerushalayim, Brachos 10:1).
The flyleaf of this manuscript features his autograph:
“Hakatan (the humble) Lipman Weil.” He references his father, the Korban Nesanel (see p. 60): “See a beautiful and fitting explanation in the sefer of my father and master, Toras Nesanel.” In another instance, he writes, ” And I heard from the mouth of my father and master zt”l that the Zohar states…” (40b). Another example is found on leaf 60b: “And then, I asked my father and master, and he told me ‘You ruled fittingly.’”
Rabbi Lipman also mentions his brother, Rabbi Tia Weil (leaf 23a); his sons Rabbi Yaakov and Rabbi Avraham (16b, 63b); and a eulogy that he delivered in 1870 for his mother-in-law, the righteous Rebbetzin Reichel, who was a descendant of the Maharal of Prague (38b). The manuscript also presents assorted Divrei Torah from various Gedolim of the era, among them Rabbi Shmuel Krakauer (2a) and Rabbi Shimon Shapira, grandfather of the author of Eliyahu Rabba (48a).
“In a Dream…”
On leaf 36b, Rabbi Lipman writes, “He showed me in a dream on the night of Rosh Hashanah 5528, a verse in Mishlei Ch. 29 verse 4, ‘Melech bamishpat ya’amid eretz, ’ and he also revealed the solution to me…” Later, he explains the above verse which was revealed to him in a dream and adds, “In truth, he showed me that in this year my son Yaakov would fall ill and then my wife would fall ill, and that the Rofeh Cholim would grant them a speedy recovery.”
The present manuscript reveals that Rabbi Lipman also compiled a work of chiddushim on Shas (leaves 41b, 42b, 76a), as well as a work on Sefer Hamitzvos LehaRambam (41b).[T1]
Manuscript Description: Written entirely by the author and bears his signature.
Page Count: 77 double-sided handwritten leaves (153 sides).
Page Size: 16×20 cm. The manuscript is explicitly dated 5521 (1761) and 5530 (1770). The layout of the manuscript also suggests that he added and amended it in his later years. First 2 leaves are missing (based on original page count).
Condition: Good with new binding.
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