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Torah novellae in the autograph of the holy Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld, author of Chasan Sofer. - A large manuscript – wondrous Torah insights in the very holy handwriting of Maran the Chasan Sofer of blessed memory – including novellae on the subjects of the festival of Purim. The Holy Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld (1835-1883), was known after his Sefer the ”Chasan Sofer”. One of the greatest rabbis of Hungary and the grandson of the Chasam Sofer. Studied with his father, Rabbi David Zvi Ehrenfeld and his uncle the ”Kesav Sofer” at the Pressburg Yeshiva. Served as a rav in Beklan and Sikso, where he taught his disciples Torah. Since 1877, he was the rav of Matersdorf and had many disciples. Gedolei HaDor greatly appreciated and respected him. His uncle, the holy gaon Rabbi Shimon Sofer, Av Beit Din of Krakow, greatly praised him when he once remarked: ”I envy the Chassidim, who when Rosh Hashanah arrives, set everything aside and travel to their Rebbe to bask in the holy presence during the Days of Awe. I, however, am preoccupied with my rabbinic duties and cannot abandon my community at such a time. If it were possible, I would leave everything behind and travel for Rosh Hashanah to Mattersdorf, to dwell in his holy shadow, just as the Chassidim travel to their Rebbe in such a season.” Regarding his birth and the special affection shown to him by his grandfather, the Chasam Sofer, it is told: ”My father-in-law [the author of Chasan Sofer] was like a ben zekunim (child of old age) to the Chasam Sofer. With his holy hands, he brought him into his Beit Midrash, where the spirit of holiness was manifest, and he cherished him daily with delight, as a beloved child, the little ben zekunim, seating him upon his knees. Before his birth, the daughter of the Chasam Sofer had been childless for six years. When her father saw her great anguish, he promised her that God would remember her with mercy and prayed for this. When the boy was born, the Chasam Sofer said of him: ‘For this child Shmuel the little one, I have prayed.’” (From the eulogy of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt, son-in-law of the Chasan Sofer. See Chasam Sofer and His Disciples, pp. 118, 542–543). After his passing, he left additonal Seforim and writings on Halacha and Aggadah. In a eulogy for him it was said that ”The young Chasam Sofer has passed away and it seems as if today Maran the Chasam Sofer was taken from us”.