Writing a Get in a City With No Prior Practice

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer

To: Rabbi Wolf

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The Chasam Sofer advises against arranging a get in Güssing before consulting the two surviving former rabbis who may know why their predecessors avoided the practice, especially for a traveler not of the community. He qualifies the Noda BiYehudah's restriction, limiting it to cities where multiple rabbis deliberately refrained over many years, and provides detailed guidance on recording the city's dual names and identifying the nearby blocked river.

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer EH II §36

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