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	Moses Sofer at AllExperts
		Rabbi Moses ben Samuel Sofer or Schreiber, also known by his main work Hatam Sofer or the Chasam Soifer ("×©×•"×ª ×—×ª× ×¡×•×¤×¨" - "Responsa the Seal of the Scribe"), was one of the leading rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.
		Rabbi Sofer was profoundly opposed to the reformers and attacked them in his speeches and writings with all the force at his command.
		A modern Jewish memorial, containing Moses Sofer's grave and those of many of his associates and family, is in Bratislava (underground, below Bratislava Castle at the Danube), and the nearby tram station is named after him.
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	Moses Sofer Summary
		SOFER, MOSHEH (1762–1839), a Jewish religious leader, was known as the Ḥatam Sofer (Ḥasam Soyfer in Ashkenazic pronunciation) and as Moses Schreiber in governmental documents.
		Rabbi Moses ben Samuel Sofer or Schreiber, also known by his main work Hatam Sofer or the Chasam Soifer ("שו"ת חתם סופר" - "Responsa the Seal of the Scribe"), was one of the leading rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.
		A modern Jewish memorial, containing Moses Sofer's grave and those of many of his associates and family, is in Bratislava (underground, below Bratislava Castle at the Danube), and the nearby tram station is named after him.
	www.bookrags.com /Moses_Sofer (1580 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Moses Sofer
		Moses Sofer was the foremost Hungarian Rabbi, Halakhic authority, and champion of Orthodoxy (1762-1839), known, after the title of his Responsa collection, as Hatam Sofer ("Seal of the Scribe").
		Sofer was born in Frankfurt where he studied under Rabbi Phineas Horowitz, the Rabbi of the town, and Rabbi Nathan Adler, a Talmudist and Kabbalist whose esoteric leanings were not to the taste of the staid Frankfurt community, which he was forced to leave, taking his disciple, Sofer, with him.
		Sofer's strong opposition to the Reform movement was continued by his son and grandson and their disciples.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/ModernReligionCulture/MoreEmergence/Orthodox_Judaism/Jacobs_Sofer.htm (803 words)

	Jewish History of Hungary
		At the beginning of the century, a strict Orthodox trend was established in Hungary under the leadership of Moses Sofer of Pressburg.
		Moses Sofer and his school decisively influenced the development of Orthodox Jewry in western and central Hungary.
		During the 19th century the Hungarian rabbinate was of a high standard and produced halakhists, authors of religious works, and community leaders, such as Sofer's son Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer and grandson Simhah Bunem Sofer, Moses Schick, and Judah Aszd (1794–1866) in Szerdahely (Mercurea), Aaron David Deutsch (1812–78) in Balassagyarmat, Solomon Ganzfried, and others.
	www.porges.net /JewishHistoryOfHungary.html (10489 words)

	Moses Sofer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rabbi Sofer was profoundly opposed to the reformers and attacked them in his speeches and writings.
		The Jewish cemetery in Bratislava was confiscated during the regime of Josef Tiso in 1943 to build a roadway.
		The regime complied either (according to one story) as a consequence of a large bribe, foreign pressure (according to another) or (according to yet another) for fear of a curse if the graves were destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moses_Sofer (1135 words)

	Personality of the Week - Sofer
		Sofer bitterly fought Haskala, the Reform movement and the introduction of prayers in the vernacular.
		His responsa were published in seven volumes under the title Hatam Sofer and he is generally known by the title of his book.
		Sefer Hatam Sofer : hidushim u-ve'urim `al ha-mitsvot.
	www.bh.org.il /Names/POW/sofer.asp (214 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Moses Sofer
		Rabbi Moses ben Samuel Sofer or Schreiber (1762-1839), also known by his main work Hatam Sofer or the Chasam Soifer ("שו"ת חתם סופר" - "Responsa the Seal of the Scribe"), was one of the leading rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.
		One of his decendants is the Grand Rabbi of the Erlau sect, which is a Hasidic-style sect in Jerusalem that follows the customs of Rabbi Moses Sofer, as opposed to Hasidic customs of prayer.
		The Jewish cemetery in Bratislava was confiscated during the regime of Josef Tiso in 1943 to build a roadway.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Moses_Sofer (1282 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - SCHREIBER, MOSES B. SAMUEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From Boskowitz Schreiber went, at Adler's advice, to Prossnitz, where he married Sarah, the widowed daughter of R. Moses Jerwitz, by whom all his material wants were supplied for two years.
		He became head of the yeshibah at Prossnitz, and later accepted his first official position, becoming rabbi of Dresnitz, after he had procured the sanction of the government to settle in that town.
		About 100 volumes were left by Schreiber in manuscript, of which the following have been printed: (1) "Ḥatam Sofer" (6 vols., Presburg, 1855-64), a collection of responsa; (2) "Ḥatam Sofer," consisting of "ḥiddushim" to many Talmudical treatises published at various dates and places; (3) "Shirat Mosheh" (ib.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=364&letter=S&search=Schreiber (689 words)

	Purim - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Rema says that one should only drink a little more than he is used to drinking, and then try to fall asleep (whereupon he certainly will not be able to tell the difference between the two phrases indicated by the Talmud).
		He expresses the opinion that, since the purpose of the masquerade is only merrymaking, it should not be considered a transgression of the Biblical law regarding dress.
		According to some sources, the influential Rabbi Moses Sofer (the Hatam Sofer), who was born in Frankfurt, celebrated Purim Vintz every year, even when he served as a rabbi in Pressburg.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Purim (3349 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Purim - Calendar Encyclopedia
		In response, some commentators like Moses Isserles (The Rama) who worried about the abuse of this rule, developed less literal ways to understand this invitation.
		He expresses the opinion that, since the purpose of the masquerade is only merrymaking, it should not be considered a transgression of the Biblical law regarding dress.
		According to some sources, the influential Rabbi Moses Sofer (the Hatam Sofer), who was born in Frankfurt, celebrated Purim Vintz every year, even when rabbi in Pressburg.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /Purim.htm (2842 words)

	Amazon.com: "Moses Sofer": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The opinion of Moses Sofer (1762-1839), one of the most important Orthodox figures and halakhists in the modern period, is a very clear illustration of...
		The leading figure in the struggle of traditional rabbis against Reform was the highly esteemed talmudic scholar Moses Sofer (popularly known as Hatam Sofer; see document 4).
		Moses Sofer (Schreiber), distinguished rabbi of Slovakia from 1803 onward, widely known for his popular legal work Chatam Soler, disagreed, maintaining (Yoreh...
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	Infobank Judengasse
		Moses Schreiber was born in Frankfurt in 1763.
		Chatam Sofer was a dogged opponent of the Jewish Reform Movement, and stood for the values of strict Jewish orthodoxy.
		In his will he forbade his children to read the works of Moses Mendelssohn or similar texts.
	www.juedischesmuseum.de /judengasse/ehtml/P130.htm (147 words)

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		In his will, R. Moses Sofer appointed his eldest son to succeed him as rosh yeshivah.
		Although his son was only 24 at the time, R. Moses Sofer's request was granted.
		Though not at first an extremist, he later joined their ranks and finally gave the religious approval of the Sofer dynasty to the schism in Hungarian Jewry.
	www.virtualjudaica.com /VJScripts/PublicViewVJAuctionItem.asp?ScriptAction=View&ID=14448 (225 words)

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		The responsa of Moses Alashkar (printed at Sabbionetta in 1554) are those which discuss the problem whether a converted Jew may be compelled by means of the provincial court to give his Jewish wife a bill of divorce according to Jewish procedure (No. 75, pp.
		The movements for the reform of Judaism evoked many responsa in reply to questions concerning the location of the bimah, organ accompaniments, the covering of the head in the synagogue, the seating of men and women together, and prayers in the vernacular.
		In a responsum ("Hatam Sofer, Orah; Hayyim,"No. 28) Moses Sofer discussed the problem whether the "bimah" (almemar) might be removed from the center and placed near the Ark, as is now the case in all Reform and even in many Orthodox synagogues, but which was then interdicted as an innovation.
	www.seedwiki.com /wiki/conj/history_of_responsa?wpid=334654 (4039 words)

	Responsa in War Time
		Hence the probabilities are very great in a veterans' hospital that there is actually present more than one patient with the same sickness as that of which this patient has died.
		There is a distinct possibility that even these observances which Moses Sofer discourages are not applicable at all inasmuch as the bones are removed in a closed coffin.
		There is considerable discussion in the Palestinian Talmud to the effect that the laws of mourning apply at the dis-interment only when the bones are carried loosely in a garment, but not if carried in a coffin as they are here.
	www.jewish-funerals.org /wartime.htm (8153 words)

	The Halachic Tale of Three American Birds: Turkey, Prairie Chic
		Following responsum YD:74, Chatam Sofer (Rabbi Moses Sofer; 1762-1839) wrote several pages of explanation of the subject, followed by a note that the rest of his thoughts on this topic are in a separate monograph.
		in possession of smicha (rabbinic ordination) from the Chatam Sofer and his Pressburg Yeshiva and a Ph.D. from the University of Budapest, arrived as the new rabbi in New Orleans, and declared that the muscovy duck could not possibly be treated as a kosher species because there could be no mesorah for it.
		It seems quite clear that the Chatam Sofer himself did accept that it applies to birds, but was willing to accept that others may have a lingering doubt.
	www.kashrut.com /articles/ThreeBirds (6585 words)

	Brit milah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rabbi Moses Sofer (known as the "Chasam Sofer") observed that the Talmud states that the rationale for this part of the ritual was hygienic — i.e., to protect the health of the child.
		He also cited a passage from the Talmud Tractate Nedarim 32a as a warrant for the position that metzitzah b’peh was not an obligatory part of the circumcision ceremony.
		On the other hand, Rabbi Moshe Schick, the Maharam Shik, one of the most prominent students of the Chasam Sofer, states in his book of Responsa, She’eilos U’teshuvos Maharam Shik (Orach Chaim 152,) [5] that the Chasam Sofer gave the ruling in that specific instance only and that it may not be applied elsewhere.
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		For Moses said to Him: "O Master of the World, the opinion of each and every one is known to Thee, and they are unlike each other.
		Moses, according to this interpretation, recognizes that he has been a harsh disciplinarian as a leader, impatient and even intolerant of his people's foibles, and he pleas for a successor of milder and more forgiving and tolerant disposition.
		And Moses said, it is not meet for us to do so, for we shall sacrifice the abomination (i.e., the pagan god) of the Egyptians to the Lord our God.
	www.yu.edu /lamm/toler.html (3551 words)

	Dualism and its Perils: The Case of Mendelssohn
		Was Moses Mendelssohn "responsible" for the Reform Movement in Germany?
		The road was paved for Shabbetai Tzvi to speak of a "higher Torah" whose dictates may be opposed to those of the lower one with which Jews were familiar.
		Moses Sofer, A Reply Concerning the Question of Reform (1819) in The Jew in the Modern World (Mendes-Flohr ed.)
	www.metatronics.net /lit/mendel.html (3165 words)

	Toldot Adam
		Sofer saw Haskalah as a threat to the integrity of Jewish worship, but an even greater danger was assimilation.
		Halevi believed that evolution was adumbrated in the Torah, hence he devoted much of his essay to an analysis of the Torah and to commentaries on it in the Midrash Rabbah (Jewish treatises on the Torah and other books of the Bible, written between the fourth and twelfth centuries A.D.).
		Rabbi Sofer wrote that "our sages of blessed memory said that the world was created in Hebrew." Accordingly, subtleties of Old Testament texts may be hidden from those who cannot read Hebrew.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/2000/PSCF3-00Dodson.html (5394 words)

	Jewish History 1800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lessing was said to have used his friend, Moses Mendelssohn, as his role model.
		Even though the assembly was to be held on the Sabbath (some claim this was a loyalty litmus test), they decided to attend and not risk the wrath of the Emperor.
		Grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, he was raised as a Protestant and became a world-renowned composer.
	www.davidsconsultants.com /jewishhistory/history.php?startyear=1800&en... (1990 words)

	Hatam Sofer Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rav Moshe Sofer, the Hatam Sofer was the leading Rabbinical authority of Central Europe in the 19th Century.
		(From Moses to Moses, Maimonides, there was never another Moshe of their stature until Moshe Sofer).
		Machon Hatam Sofer publishes the works of Hatam Sofer himself and those of his sons and grandsons who continued in his way.
	www.virtualgeula.com /htmsofer/htmsofer.htm (95 words)

	Spiritual Significance of the Incense
		G-d spoke to Moses, saying: Take the finest spices, 500 [shekels] of distilled myrrh, [two] half portions, each consisting of 250 [shekels] of fragrant cinnamon and 250 [shekels] of fragrant cane, and 500 shekels of cassia, all measured by the sanctuary standard, along with a hin of olive oil.
		The Talmud (Shabbat 89a) teaches that Moses was taught the mystery of the incense by the Angel of Death.
		Moses and Aaron threw themselves down on their faces to plead mercy.
	www.jewishmag.com /11mag/mystic/mystic.htm (13709 words)

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		Shabbati Sheftal Margolioth was the son of R. Gerson ha-Levi of Tarnopol and studied there under R. Joshua Babad the author of Sepher Joshua (Zholkva 1828).
		He was a receipient of responsa by R. Moses Sofer (Hatam Sofer) and several other noted contemporary Authors who address him with the highest respect.
		Israel Rapaport (Responsa MaHaRi ha-Kohen, Lemberg 1869) in a lenghty responsa (ibid #24) writes "my dearest friend, famed rabbi, reknown for his erudite knowledge and wisdom in Torah." A similiar language is used by R. Moses Sofer in responsa #24 of Likutei Shu't.
	www.virtualjudaica.com /VJScripts/PublicViewVJAuctionItem.asp?ScriptAction=View&ID=13944 (214 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 16 Number 29
		According to this book, Rabbi Sofer was careful to ensure that only the "senior" students attended lectures on this subject.
		How interesting then it is to find Rabbi Moses Sofer using this method in some of the most delicate areas of study.
		Rabbi Moses Sofer solved this problem by making a pair of sexual organs and using them for a demonstration.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v16/mj_v16i29.html (1926 words)

	Haredi Judaism - Free net encyclopedia
		Haredi Jews, like other Orthodox Jews, consider their belief system and religious practices to extend in an unbroken chain back to Moses and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
		As a result, they consider non-Orthodox denominations to be unjustifiable deviations from authentic Judaism, both because of other denominations' dubiety concerning verbal revelation of Written and Oral Torah, and because of their rejection of Halakhic (or Jewish legal) precedent as binding.
		In his view the fundamental beliefs and tenets of Judaism should not, and could not, be altered.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Haredi (5203 words)

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