Rabbi Moshe Sofer

Biography

Rabbi Moshe Sofer, known as the Chasam Sofer, was the Rabbi of Pressburg and founder of the Pressburg Yeshiva, a central institution for traditional Ashkenazi Orthodoxy in Central Europe. His leadership and piskei halacha were a primary force in formulating the Orthodox response to Reform and Haskalah currents in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His published writings include responsa, chiddushim on Shas, drashos, and commentaries on the Torah and tefillah, many of which appear under the title Chasam Sofer.

Works

• Shu"t Chasam Sofer
• Toras Moshe
• Chiddushei Chasam Sofer

Responsa

• Creditor's Priority over Deathbed Gift Recipients in Estate Claims — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Meizlish
• Removing a Sinning Rabbi or Chazzan from Office — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolios
• Omission of Increasing Joy in Adar — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Yaakov Baruch Frenkel
• Reciting Machnisei Rachamim and Petitioning Angels (1829) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Meir
• Retroactive prohibition of meat and vessels from shochet who lost post-slaughter knife sensation — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Matzos from Turkish Wheat (Buckwheat) for the Poor — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Yaakov Baruch Frenkel
• Repurposing Secular Items as Torah Coverings — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Michel Segal
• Tzuras Hapesach Connecting Isolated Mikvah to Town — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Zalman Perles
• Fitness of chazan-shochet who publicly confessed to kares-level sin — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Permitting an Agunah Based on Multiple Grounds of Kiddushin Invalidity — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Binyamin Wolf Hamburg
• Widow of a Mumar's Permissibility to Marry a Kohen — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Nosson Shapira
• Husband's Rights over Wife's Nichsei Melog Property Sold During Marriage — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Sender Meizlish
• Whether complainants may eat meat from a shochet they accuse informally — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Pidyon HaBen Timing and Prayer Disruption Cherem — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi David
• Birkas HaGomel Recited at Night — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Shabsai Elchanan
• Unfolding a Room Divider on Shabbos — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Gedaliah
• Reassembling Broken Challah for Lechem Mishneh — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Leib
• Correcting Omitted Letter in Divine Name Elokim in a Sefer Torah — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Elyakim Getz Konigsberg
• Bechor Status of Calf Born After Non-Jew's Inspection Without Kinyan (20 Elul 5577) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Getz
• Selling intestines to non-Jew after invalid shechitah and ever min hachai — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Daughter's Shtar Chatzi Zachar Claim and Burden of Proof — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Sender Meizlish
• Permissibility of selling intestines of neveilos and treifos to non-Jews — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Asher Zelig
• Inspecting esophagus after derusah: resolving contradiction in Tur YD 33 — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Meir
• Scraping Fused Aleph Letters Within Divine Names in a Sefer Torah — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Sender Meizlish
• Whether Simanei Dagim and Simanei Beitzim Are D'Oraisa or D'Rabbanan — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Exchange-Proceeds of Chametz After Bitul and Mechirah — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Pinchas Leib Freiden
• Agency for Non-Jews: Torah or Rabbinic Level — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Lipman
• Invalidity of Permitting Kitniyos on Pesach — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Avraham
• Laws of Dam Machmas Tashmish and the Shfoferes Examination — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Yitzchak Nosson
• Jointed Beam Eruv and Tzuras Hapesach Validity — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Sender Meizlish
• Whitish shimmer on lung membrane and grounds for leniency — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Avraham David Rubinstein
• Synagogue Menorah Arrangement and Lighting Order on Chanukah — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Nosson Shapira
• Metzora's Chatas: Atonement Role of Sacrifices vs. Afflictions — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi David Deutsch
• Treifah status of animal with blister, adhesion, and needle in beis hakosos — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Moshe Leib
• Permitting Agunah to Remarry Based on Multiple Identifying Marks on Drowned Body — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Yitzchak Tiktin
• Direction of Chanukah Candle Lighting and Turning Right (Erev Shabbos Erev Rosh Chodesh Teves 5560) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Heter Meah Rabbonim for Husband of Insane Wife — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Moshe Perles
• Thirty-Day Chazakah for Mashiv HaRuach — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Grafted Esrog: Disqualification and Identifying Signs — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Establishing Community Purim for Local Miracles — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Megillah Handling on Shabbos and Walled City Holiness — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Resolving Rashi's Contradiction on Women and Zimun — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Kohen in Niddah's House Performing Birkas Kohanim — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Shmuel Katz
• Conditional Kiddushin to Prevent Iggun Due to Missing Brother — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Moshe Perles
• Dimensions of the Revi'is Cup for Four Cups (Shushan Purim 5564) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Permissibility of Giving Chalifin of Prohibited Whiskey for Niece's Dowry — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Moshe Perles
• Equality of Prayer Rites and Nusach Validity (1833) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Rabbi Meir
• Formatting the Ten Sons of Haman in Megillah (12 Adar 5591) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Birkas HaChamah When Sun Is Obscured by Clouds (7 Nissan 5573) — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient
• Berachah upon Receiving a Communal Sefer Torah — from Rabbi Moshe Sofer to Unknown recipient