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Precious Find: Autograph of the Sefer 'Ktav Sofer' Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer
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Precious Find: Autograph of the Sefer 'Ktav Sofer' Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer
Chiddushei HaKtav Sofer al Masechet Chulin - two large pages [close to 2,000 words!] handwritten by the author himself, the gaon Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, the author of Ktav Sofer, eldest son and successor of the Chatam Sofer as leader of Hungarian Jewry. [Pressburg, c. 1843.]
Autograph of the renowned sefer by the author, known ever since as the Ba'al HaKtav Sofer. These pages contain the Ktav Sofer's novellae on Tractate Chulin in the chapter "Behemah HaMekasheh, " leaves 70 through 74. The author wrote at the top of each page: "B'Ezrat Hashem, that which Hashem has granted me regarding Chulin, Chapter "Behemah HaMekasheh" and the leaf number to which the novellae refer.
These novellae were copied word-for-word from this sacred manuscript and printed as such in his book Chiddushei HaKtav Sofer L'Masechet Chulin (Budapest, 1938). Close examination of the body of the manuscript reveals erasures and corrections that were obviously not printed in the sefer and give us a rare glimpse into they way the novellae were composed, the initial considerations and the conclusions of one of the giants of the generations.
It is interesting to quote the introduction printed at the beginning of Chiddushei HaKtav Sofer (Jerusalem 1998 edition), which extensively discusses the writing of Chiddushei HaKtav Sofer L'Masechet Beitzah, as follows: "Instead of retiring the Chatam Sofer's quill, his son and successor, the Ktav Sofer began to deliver his lectures on a regular basis for the members of the yeshivah the day after his father's sheloshim, and he wrote his novellae on the same notebook used by his father, the Chatam Sofer, until the end of the tractate and completed them on Tuesday, 20 Tammuz 1840."
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer.
[2] large Pages. 24x39 cm.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Professionally restored tears in the margins, with blemishes in single lines. Placed in a magnificent leather binding.
