David Meir Frisch

David Meir Frisch was born around 1812[2] in the town of Rohatyn, in western Ukraine, a part of Austria-Hungary at the time.

Rabbi Frisch addressed queries to many of the rabbinical luminaries of his time, dealing with questions of law, covering all four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, including ritual, marital, monetary and civil matters.

To the extent that responsa answering these queries were printed, they appear in the collections of the following luminaries: Rabbi Shlomo Kluger -approx.

[22] 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:[23] •Rabbi Joshua Falk Zeev (Wolfsohn),[24] AB"D Akna, Moldavia (#1, 2) •Rabbi David Silber,[25] 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).

(#31) •Rabbi Abraham Benjamin Kluger, son of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Kluger (1841–1916) (#34) •Rabbi Jonah Melier,[35] AB”D Podhajce (1850–1914) (#35) •Rabbi Arye Leib(ush) Nathansohn[36] of Berezhany, father of the Gaon Joseph Saul Nathansohn (1790–1873) •Rabbi Pinchas Burstyn,[37] AB”D Sereth (Siret), Bukovina (1829–1906) (#40, 41) •Rabbi Mottel Frisch – son of author (#42, 44) •Rabbi Baruch Meir Frisch[38] AB”D Czortków (1820*-1899) (#43) •Rabbi Tuvyah Klahr,[39] scholar, Zborow (Zboriv) (#45) •Rabbi Samuel Chayim Gabel,[40] Dayan, Tlumacz (Tlumach) (#48) •Rabbi Bezalel Ginsburg,[41] Dayan, Tarnopol (Ternopil) (#50) •Rabbi Joel Moskowicz, Schotz,[42] (1810–1886) son-in-law of the Righteous Rabbi Meir of Premyslany (Peremyshliany) (#51) •Rabbi Samuel Schapira,[43] Dayan, Dobromil (Dobromyl) (1855–1928) (#54) •Rabbi Israel[44] AB”D, Novoselic, Bessarabia (#55) •The Righteous Holy Rabbi Meir of Premyslany (Peremyshliany)[45] •Rabbi Saul Horowitz[46] 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.

It states that "I received your letter yesterday, but I am bereft of strength and most of the day I am bedridden and the little I do move around in my home, it is hard for me to read…though I usually only respond to practical Halachic questions, but to such lovers and learners of Torah I shall answer two or three of your initial queries, but I cannot read more…" It appears from the above that Rabbi Frisch had been ill for some time prior to his passing.