Lengthy responsum, 2 handwritten pages, with many glosses fully handwritten by the Great Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Eiger,
Rabbi Shlomo Eiger deals with the question posed by his brother-in-law Maran the Chatam Sofer, whom he defines as "A man as hard as iron, my brother-in-law, thepride of our generation the Gaon of Pressburg."
He mentions Maran Chatam Sofer a few more times.
He ends ”So my answers do not stand due to the questions falling on it by my uncle & those of my Brother-in-law the pride of our generation”.
The great Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Eiger (1786-1852), a leading Torah scholar in his times, second son of Rabbi Akiva Eiger, and brother-in-law of the Maran the Chatam Sofer was among the most learned and wealthy Warsaw residents and after he lost his fortune during the 1831 Battle of Warsaw (R. Shlomo Eiger, R. Chaim Davidson and R. Berish Meisels supported the revolt), he was appointed to the Kalish rabbinate.
In 1840, he succeeded his father as Rabbi of Posen. He edited and published his father’s responsa and novellae adding a few of his own novellae to these seforim. In addition, his seforim Gilyon Maharsha on the Talmud and on the Shulchan Aruch were also printed. The sefer Rabbi Shlomo Eiger responsa printed by Mossad HaRav Kook (Jerusalem, 1983-1985) and Sefer Ha’Ikarim – explanations of halachic principles (Jerusalem, 1991-1996) are composed of his writings & are inalienable assets.
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