Shu"t Michtav Sofer
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Michtav Sofer
Michtav Sofer
1820 CE–1883 CE · Acharonim · Pressburg (Bratislava)
Rabbi Shimon Sofer (1820-1883) was born in Pressburg, present-day Bratislava, the second son of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Chasam Sofer, and, through his mother, a grandson of Rabbi Akiva Eger. After a period in Nagykaroly, he assumed the rabbinate of Mattersdorf around 1843, a post his father had once held, and about 1859 he accepted the position of chief rabbi of Krakow, which he held until his death. Remembered by the title of his collected writings, Michtav Sofer, he left responsa (Shu"t Michtav Sofer) and sermons (Drashos Michtav Sofer) grounded in Talmudic and halakhic study. A leading figure in Galician Orthodox life, he helped found the Machzikei Hadas movement together with the Hasidic rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach of Belz, and in 1879 was elected to the Austrian parliament, where he sat with the Polish Club.
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Pressburg (Bratislava)פרשבורגSlovakia/Hungary
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