Letter addressed to his disciple the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Ber Schon Dayan in Krems.

Szerdahely, 1856..

22 Cm.

Address panel with his wax handtamp seal in the form of his signature, which has survived almost fully intact.


The Holy Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Assad [1796-1866] one of the greatest rabbis of Hungary and a leading Posek in the generation after the Chasam Sofer, who called him \'a great scholar, Ish Tzaddik Tamim\'.


Served in the Senica (Semnitz) and Dunaszerdahely rabbinates. Recommended to the rabbinate by the Chatam Sofer. There he established a Yeshiva where he taught hundreds of youths Torah and fear of heaven. His disciples were important rabbis of Hungary

After the passing of the Chatam Sofer - with whom he conversed in writing many of his Halacha and Divrei Torah - he was reckoned as the Posek of the generation and from the greatest Rabbi in Hungary. . Maran the Divrei Chaim called him \'Mofes Hador\'.

The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Ber Schon was a native of Schossberg (Sastin). He was one of the foremost disciples of the author of Ktav Sofer and of the Mahar"i Assad. Dayan and Moreh Tzedek in Krems and Wieden (Vienna).
Close disciple of Rabbeinu Yehuda Assad. There are dozens of responsa addressed to him in Shu"t Mahar"i Assad in which he adorns him with exalted descriptions: "My beloved close disciple, " "Righteous and lofty, " "The great rabbi" and others.

His teacher, the Ktav Sofer, wrote of him: "Our disciple, the expert rabbi is a morag charutz [מורג חרוץ/an industrious thresher]." And his teacher, the Mahar"i Assad, wrote of him: "My beloved disciple, expert in Torah and pure reverence and spectacular wisdom."

He was the proofreader of the sefer Akedat Yitzchak, Pressburg 1849 edition (together with his friend Rabbi Feivel Plaut Rabbi of Šurany).

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Letter by the Holy Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Assad. 1856.

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