Segula!!! — Chassam Sofer insights on Torah
Handwritten Manuscript by the Chassam Sofer. Mattersdorf, 1802
Wonderful explanations replete with mussar and words of inspiration, written in the holy hand of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshivah in Pressburg and author of Chasam Sofer.
This double-sided leaf of Torah thoughts is part of the well-known notebooks of novella referred to as Ksav Yad Mattersdorf – a large pamphlet of the Chasam Sofer’s novellae on the weekly portions of the Torah, written between the years 1799-1802 during the period of his Rabbinical tenure in Mattersdorf.
The Mattersdorf manuscript is distinctly identifiable by its unique 2 column layout, as opposed to all other pamphlets which have only a single column.
These novellae were written in 1802.
Novellae on parshiyos Yisro and Mishpatim, including six complete paragraphs (published in Drashos Chasam Sofer and Chasam Sofer al HaTorah based on this handwritten manuscript )
Many of the Chasam Sofer’s novellae on Chumash are based upon the words of the Ramban which are “the foundation of belief and the root of religion” (Shu”t Chasam Sofer Vol. 6 Ch. 61).
Harav Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky added in the name of his rebbi, Rabbi Zeckel Pollack who was a student of the Chasam Sofer, that the reason the Chasam Sofer signed his name Moshe Hakatan and not Hakatan Moshe was to indicate he is the “small Moshe” while the “great Moshe” is the Ramban. (Introduction to Tuv Yerushalayim on the Ramban).
“Had the Chasam Sofer not left behind any other blessing other than the Toras Moshe on Torah, it would have been enough to perceive his greatness. For if all of his works are holy, sefer Toras Moshe is kodesh kodashim.” [Rabbi Meir Arik, quoted in the introduction of the Chasan Sofer Haggadah Shel Pesach.]
It is known that the family of the Chasam Sofer regarded the manuscripts written in the holy hands of the Chasam Sofer as an amulet for protection and healing. (See the sources in the attached material.) His son, the author of the Michtav Sofer, attested that Maharam Banet would gaze upon responsum sent to him by the Chasam Sofer and express “that just looking at the handwriting of the Chasam Sofer brings one to fear of Heaven” (Rav Y. N. Stern in the introduction to Drashos Chasam Sofer).
Mattersdorf, 1802. [1] double-sided leaf. Two columns on each side, approx. 35 lines in a column (total of 136 lines). Entirely in the author’s handwriting. Good condition.
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