Year 5379: On the night of the 7th of Iyar, passed away

The Gaon Rabbi Ephraim. [He composed Orach LeChaim, two sermons for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and Pesach, 5351. Keli Yakar on the Torah and Rashi, 5362. Ir Giborim, several chapters of sermons and afterward in the order of the Torah, 5340. Olelot Ephraim, sermons for holidays and circumcision and for every order and weddings and eulogies and redemption of the son and for Torah and worship and charity, 5332.

Amudei Shesh, sermons on six pillars, 5378. Rivevot Ephraim, a great composition of one hundred in the order of the Torah and several matters, manuscript. Siftei Da'at, sermons in the order of the Torah, 5370.] His students requested to involve themselves and purify him. The Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu ruled that the burial society should engage with Torah scholars, and if they wish to defer to some important people for the sake of the benefit of the charity of the burial society, they may purchase permission with money, but according to the law they cannot take from the burial society.

So too was it copied from the register of the Prague community. And so too he ruled in another year when a slain gentile was found for about nine weeks in their courtyard. He commanded to purify him and make shrouds for him since he was found without clothing, and to make a coffin without a bed cloth and shroud, and the soiled clothes from the torture to be placed inside the coffin. A maiden of nine years old fell and lived for two hours, and Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz commanded to purify her and dress her in shrouds like other dead and to make a coffin without a bed cloth and shroud, and the soiled garments to be placed in the grave on the coffin.