Lot 207
Letter of Responsa by Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer - Budapest, 1912
Long autograph letter signed by R. Ya'akov Shalom Sofer (Schreiber), a rabbi in Budapest. Budapest, 1912.
Responsum send to R. Yisrael Weltz who at that time served as Rabbi of Tinnye.
R. Ya'akov Shalom Sofer (1855-1921) was a rabbi in Budapest, the second son of the illustrious R. Chaim Sofer, author of Machane Chaim (Rabbi of Ungvar and Budapest, disciple of the Chatam Sofer). He wrote Torat Chaim on the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, 5 volumes; Yeshevav Sofer, on Tractate Sanhedrin and responsa, printed from a manuscript many years after his death. This responsum was printed in the book Yeshevav Sofer (Jerusalem, 1976, pp. 168-169).
Official stationery, closely written on both sides (about 70 handwritten lines), 29 cm. Good-fair condition, tears to paper folds.
