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Personal Shulchan Aruch of The Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Baneth. Choshen HaMishpat, [A], with the Shach and Sema Commentary. Hamburg, [1742]. - Personal Shulchan Aruch of The Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Baneth. Choshen HaMishpat, [A], with the Shach and Sema Commentary. Hamburg, [1742]. VeNasata el Choshen HaMishpat es HaUrim VeEs Hatumim. Shulchan Aruch with the Sefer Me'irot Enayim commentary, Siftei Cohen, Turei Zahav and Be'er haGolah [section A], printed by Aharon Ben Zvi Hirsch of Dessa, Hamburg, [1742]. On the title page is the signature of Rabbi Mordechai Benett (1753-1829), Rabbi of Nikolsburg and all of Morvia. The Gaon Rabbi Mordechai ben Avraham Baneth, known as the Maharam Baneth (1753-1829) was an important Hungarian rabbi and Av Beit Din and rosh yeshiva of Nicklasburg. He was also Chief Rabbi of Moravia. Already in his childhood he was considered a prodigy and at the age of eleven(!) he was sent to study at the yeshiva of Rabbi Yaakov Katzenelboigen in Ettingen, Bavaria. At age 15 he transferred to the Furth yeshiva to study under Rabbi Yosef Steinhardt. At age 18 he travelled to Prague, where he studied under the Noda B’Yehuda. At age 22 he married the daughter of Gimpel Prostitz of Nicklasburg, and moved to study under the Admor Shmuel Shmelka Horwitz, a Chassidic leader and the town’s rabbi. According to a tradition among the Hasidim, our Rabbi used to practice celibacy, fasting and asceticism from an early age, until Rabbi Zosha of Anipoli rebuked him for being ascetic and from then on he used to only reduce his food consumption (see below). Aside from his greatness in the Torah he was also proficient in external wisdoms such as philosophy, astronomy and mathematics. He was an obedient subject of Emperor Franz I, in whose honor he composed a prayer after the suppression of the revolt in Italy in 1820.