page_title: David Meir Frisch
section_title: Responsa "Yad Meir"
hierarchical_section_title: David Meir Frisch / Responsa "Yad Meir"
caption_attribution_description: English: Front Page of Yad Meir Other information &lt;no&gt;
context_page_description: David Meir Frisch
  was a 19th-century rabbinical authority.
context_section_description: The “Yad Meir” (translated “Hand of Meir”) was published in Lemberg (now Lviv) in 1881, in the year before his passing. It contains 56 responsa (Nos. 1 to 57, with No. 32 missing), most of them addressed to well-known talmudic scholars of his time, including his sons. The numerical value of the Hebrew word “yad” is 14, the same as the value of “David”, the author’s first name. “Yad” is also the acronym of “Yad David”, while Meir is the author’s middle name.
  Rather than laity, the majority of the questioners in the Yad Meir were rabbis and rabbinical judges (Av Beit Din (AB"D) or Dayan), but not all are identified. The following questioners are identified:
  •Rabbi Joshua Falk Zeev (Wolfsohn), AB"D Akna, Moldavia (#1, 2)
  •Rabbi David Silber, Dayan, Berezhany (#3, 5, 20, 27)
  •Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, (1815–1891) AB”D Kolomyia (#4)
  •#6 – This responsum, as all the others, is undated and doesn’t identify the questioners other than “all the sages of Podhajce” (now Pidhaitsi, Ukraine). The following served there in a senior rabbinic capacity at the time: Rabbi Simon Melier  (1810*-1880*), his son Rabbi Nota Jonah Melier  (1850*-1910*), or perhaps Rabbi Simon Lilianfeld  (1857–1910)(See #13)
  •The Righteous Rabbi Uri of Rohatyn (1820–1889)(#7)
  •Rabbi Baruch Frisch (1853-1920*) – son of the author. During World War I refugee in Budapest, returned to Berezhany after it ended, date of his passing unknown.(#11, 37)
  •Rabbi Gavriel Menkes, AB”D Sambor (Sambir)  (d. 1878) (#12)
  •Rabbi Shalom Lilianfeld, AB"D Podhajce  (1857–1910)(#13, see also #6)
  •Rabbi Simon Melier, AB"D Podhajce  (1810*-1880*)(#17, see also #6)
  •Rabbi Shlomoh Frisch, (1849–1874) son of the author, died young.(#18, 33)
  •Rabbi Joseph Pechier, Dayan, Tysmienica (Tysmenytsia) (#22)
  •Rabbi David Ber Leiter, AB"D Zawalow (Zavaliv) (1846–1912) (#24, 25)
  •Rabbi Moshe Moshil ", AB”D Teatro, Moldavia (#28)
  •Rabbi Eliezer Schatzberg, Dayan, Zborow (Zboriv) (#30)
  •Rabbi Israel Arye Frisch – brother of author.(#31)
  •Rabbi Abraham Benjamin Kluger, son of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Kluger (1841–1916) (#34)
  •Rabbi Jonah Melier, AB”D Podhajce (1850–1914) (#35)
  •Rabbi Arye Leib(ush) Nathansohn  of Berezhany, father of the Gaon Joseph Saul Nathansohn (1790–1873)
  •Rabbi Pinchas Burstyn, AB”D Sereth (Siret), Bukovina (1829–1906) (#40, 41)
  •Rabbi Mottel Frisch – son of author (#42, 44)
  •Rabbi Baruch Meir Frisch AB”D Czortkow (1820*-1899) (#43)
  •Rabbi Tuvyah Klahr, scholar, Zborow (Zboriv) (#45)
  •Rabbi Samuel Chayim Gabel, Dayan, Tlumacz (Tlumach) (#48)
  •Rabbi Bezalel Ginsburg, Dayan, Tarnopol (Ternopil) (#50)
  •Rabbi Joel Moskowicz, Schotz, (1810–1886) son-in-law of the Righteous Rabbi Meir of Premyslany (Peremyshliany) (#51)
  •Rabbi Samuel Schapira, Dayan, Dobromil (Dobromyl) (1855–1928) (#54)
  •Rabbi Israel AB”D, Novoselic, Bessarabia (#55)
  •The Righteous Holy Rabbi Meir of Premyslany (Peremyshliany)
  •Rabbi Saul Horowitz 7)
  The original Yad Meir is out of print, but appears in the catalogs of the Hebrew University Library, The Smithsonian Institution Hebrew Section, The Yeshiva University Library, Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York Public Library, The catalogue of Hebrew Books in the British Museum, ed. S. Van Straalen, 1894, the large online database http://hebrewbooks.org/523, and others.
caption: Front page of the "Yad Meir"
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