A complete letter written and signed in the very holy handwriting of the Great man of God, Rabbi Moshe Sofer, Av Beit Din of Pressburg and author of Responsa Chatham Sofer.
The letter was written to R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehrin, head of the administrators in Amsterdam for the Holy Land; on the eve of the Sukkot holiday.
The letter deals with three topics
1)
Recommendation for the Shadar Rabbi Yitzchak of Yerushalayim, one of the Sephardic sages in Jerusalem.
2)
Notice of the arrival of the young man Moshe Lehman, the son of the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Lehman of Amsterdam, to the Pressburg Yeshiva (see 'Igrot Sofrim', page 51;and Sefer Ha-Chatam Sofer V’Talmidav, p. 376)
3)
Regarding regulation from the Vilna Community to which Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Lehrin objected and the Chatham Sofer tended to agree with the proposal of Vilna.
The segulah of the manuscript of the Chatam Sofer
The Gaon Maharam Benet said that looking at the handwriting of the Chatam Sofer is capable of instilling fear of Heaven, and it is said that once a Halachic response came from the Chatham Sofer to Maharam Benet and he gazed upon it for some time. When asked by his students what difficulty he had, he responded that just looking at it brings on the fear of Heaven. It is also known that his son Rabbi Shimon Sofer, Av Beit Din of Cracow, when he had to make fateful decisions in the Austrian parliament, would take his father's handwriting out of his pocket and would look at it.
Letter size: 24:19 cm., 16 rows,
all in perfect condition.
