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Volume of Responsa “Chatam Sofer”, first printing – copy of the Gaon of Vádkert! With his handwritten marginalia - The fourth volume in the series of Responsa Chatam Sofer, Even HaEzer, second part. Printed in Pressburg, 1859 Owners: On the title page: “I purchased it from my funds, Shmuel?” Stamp: “Shimon Yechezkel Yaakabovitz, Av Beit Din of the holy community of Vádkert”. On the flyleaf: “ Shimon Yechezkel  son of …… Yaakabovitz, Sarvash, may it be established, this holy book a gift from R. ?? Schwartz, peace be upon him.” The Vodkerter Rov: “The great Gaon, righteous and exalted, a holy and luminous beacon, pious and ascetic, profound and hidden, our master, our teacher, Rabbi Shimon Yechezkel Yaakubovitz, of blessed memory, Av Beit Din of Vádkert, who toiled and labored in the Torah all his days, and filled all his books with glosses more precious than fine gold, in the revealed and the hidden, besides what his mouth spoke great matters before his students and companions who gathered around him to listen to his sayings that pierced to the inner chambers.” (The Admor of Belz, in the approbation to Imrei Shai.) “I merited to receive from him much Torah and guidance in fear of Heaven, and he was among the singular ones of the generation in the toil of Torah in truth, in the manner of the disciples of the master of Israel, the Chatam Sofer, of blessed memory; and in matters of fear and service of God he was truly among the few who served the Blessed One with all their strength and mind.” (R. Yitschok Sheiner, Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenitz, in the approbation to Imrei Shai.) Rabbi Shimon Yechezkel Yaakobovitz, the “Vádkerter Rav”, was born in 1902 in Karoyene to his father Rabbi Yaakov Yaakabovitz. His teacher, R. M. Forhand of Makova, learned with him the laws of agunot in Even HaEzer even before he reached bar mitzvah! He was a disciple of Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg, Av Beit Din of Újhely, and of the Gaon of Galanta. Son-in-law of Rabbi Binyamin Pekete of Sarvash . After the holocaust, he became Av Beit Din of Vádkert. Afterwards he settled in Jerusalem. He passed away on 30 Cheshvan 1983. From his writings his sons published the book Imrei Shai on Tractate Ketubot.