Aryeh Leib ben Moses Zuenz
Aryeh Leib ben Moses Zuenz was a rabbi and scholar of the 18th and 19th centuries who lived in Pińczów, and later in Plotzk commonly named "Maharal miTzintz". He died on the 3rd of Iyar.
Works
He was the author of the following works:Ya'alat Chen, sermons on different parashiyyotGet Mekushshar, compendium to that part of Maimonides' Yad which treats of divorceMagen ha-Elef, called also Shem Chadash, on the regulations of the ritual codex referring to the Passover festival She'elot u-Teshubot Gur Aryeh Yehudah, compendium of the four ritual codices:- * Chiddushim, treating of the shechitah and terefah
- * Simchat Yom-Tob, complete commentary on the tractate Betzah
- * She'elot u-Teshubot Meshibat Nefesh, responsa on the ritual codices
- * Chiddushim, compendium of the ritual codex Yoreh De'ahBirkat ha-Shir, a Passover Haggadah together with commentaryMelo ha-'Omer, commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five MegillotTib Chalitzah and Tib Kiddushin, collections of responsa on the ceremony of chalitzah as observed in modern times, and on marriage contracts.