Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim

Who is Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim?

Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim was a rabbi and scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries who lived in Pińczów, and later in Plotzk. He was the author of the following works:

Ya'alat Chen, sermons on different parashiyyot

Get Mekushshar, compendium to that part of Maimonides' Yad which treats of divorce

Magen 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'ah

Birkat ha-Shir, a Passover Haggadah together with commentary

Melo ha-'Omer, commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot

Tib Chalitzah and Tib Kiddushin, collections of responsa on the ceremony of Chalitzah as observed in modern times, and on marriage contracts.