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Manuscript pages of Torah novellae in the holy autograph handwriting of Maran the Chasam Sofer, on Tractate Shabbos. - Holy and exalted! Marginal notes and Torah insights in the actual sacred handwriting of our master and teacher, Maran the Chasam Sofer of Pressburg. His Torah novellae, delving deeply into the sugyos of Tractate Shabbos, in his own pure and holy script – most effective for inspiring fear of Heaven, for protection, and for strengthening love of Torah and love of the Almighty. More than 55 lines in his own holy handwriting. The greatness of the sanctity of his handwriting: Throughout all of Klal Yisrael, the words of the holy Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Banet are well known, that merely gazing upon the holy handwriting of Maran the Chasam Sofer, of blessed memory, is a segulah for fear of Heaven. So too was the tradition among the Chasam Sofer’s disciples, those encamped under his banner and drinking from the wellsprings of their teacher, the leader of all Diaspora Jewry: that his very handwriting is a wondrous segulah for fear of Heaven and for salvation in all matters, and especially – a protection against fires in Jewish homes, Heaven forfend – in the merit of the holy Torah, for which the Chasam Sofer, the great defender of Israel, was the guardian of its walls, the faithful shepherd, and the prince of Torah. Based on the words of our teacher himself in Parashas Toldos, concerning the sanctity of the possessions of tzaddikim and their garments, from which their spiritual power flows – how much more so is this true of the holy letters and extended passages of Torah novellae, “Ana nafshi kesavis yehavis” (“I have invested my very soul in my writings”), penned by the scribe of the King, the man of God, our master the Chasam Sofer. “Maran the Daas Sofer, of blessed memory, would maintain as a segulah for recovery, that when one fell ill and was bedridden, God forbid, one should place beneath his pillow a page in the holy handwriting of the Chasam Sofer” (Bais Soferim Journal, vol. 3). Likewise, it was publicized in the name of the holy Rebbi Yoel of Satmar that to behold the handwriting of the Chasam Sofer is a segulah for fear of Heaven. 1 page, 2 sides.