Lot : 69

Manuscript: Complete Sugya, Handwritten by the Gaon Maharam Schick. Halych, 1836

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Manuscript: Complete Sugya, Handwritten by the Gaon Maharam Schick. Halych, 1836

Five pages containing a complete composition on the matters of hilchos Ribis, discussions from the Shas, the commentators and the poskim.

Written in the holy handwriting of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Schick, Av Bais Din of Yeregin, the greatest disciple of the Chasam Sofer and one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Hungary.

At the beginning of the booklet, the Maharam Schick wrote: "Be’ezras Hashem, Halych, Wednesday Tes Sivan 5596…..” [1836]

While the Maharam Schick was in the city of Halych, he merited receiving the famous and beautiful blessing from the Chasam Sofer: "May Hashem rejoice and bless you, and raise you and your Torah, and may your teachings become widespread."

The Gaon Maharam Schick (1807-1879) was the Chasam Sofer’s successor in his derech halimud and in his leadership of Hungary. He had many great disciples who disseminated Torah worldwide. The sages of Hungary followed his rulings.

In 1837 he began serving in the rabbinate of Yeregin near Pressburg, upon the recommendation of his teacher the Chasam Sofer. When the Chasam Sofer came to Yeregin on vacation, he would go to hear his disciple’s shiurim. (Zichron LeMoshe, page 9).

The Chasam Sofer praised him, saying: "I cannot say anything new in front of him because he knows everything, and his humility is like that of Rabbi Akiva Eiger." (The words of his disciple Rabbi Zalman Spitzer, the son-in-law of the Chasam Sofer, in his eulogy, ‘Tikun Shlomo’, p. 104-106).

Halych, 1836.

Three leaves, of which [5] pages are in the handwriting of the Maharam Schick.

Size: 20.5 x 24cm.

Condition: Good. The first page is slightly cropped at the edge. Greenish paper.

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At the end of nine segments, the Maharam Schick wrote a line and a point, in the manner of his teacher, the Chasam Sofer, who would write this way in accordance with Kabbalah.

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