Bidspirit auction | KEHILLAS YAAKOV, LEMBERG, 1870, BELONGED

KEHILLAS YAAKOV, LEMBERG, 1870, BELONGED TO THE FAMED HUNGARIAN GAON RAV CHAIM SOFER, AUTHOR OF MACHNEH CHAIM - R. Chaim Sofer (1821-1886), was born in Pressburg and learned in the great Yeshiva of the Chasam Sofer where he was a prize talmid (he was unrelated despite their identical last names), known for his outstanding diligence, perspicacity and intellectual capacity. He was also a talmid of the MaHaRa”M Ash. He later learned under R. Binyomin Wolf Lowey of Verbau (Shaarei Torah). He served as Rav in various important communities notably Munkacs and later Budapest. Author of many important seforim, notably Teshuvos Machne Chaim.