Copy of the Holy Gaon Rabbi Chaim Sofer Ab''d Budapest, the 'Machaneh Chaim'. Haggadah - With the Ateret Tzvi ...

Copy of the Holy Gaon Rabbi Chaim Sofer Ab''d Budapest, the 'Machaneh Chaim'. Haggadah - With the Ateret Tzvi Commentary Based on Teachings of Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch - Krotoszyn 1840. First Edition.

1. Seder Haggadah shel Pesach with a pleasant commentary explaining the ban on chametz, the mitzvah of eating matzah, and the service for Leil Shimurim [Seder Night], entitled Ateret Tzvi ... arranged by Rabbi Samson son of Raphael Tzvi, rabbi and teacher of Adath Jeshurun, Oldenburg and the State, with a German translation according to the commentary.

Wollstein-Krotoschin, 1840. Hebrew and Yiddish.

First edition of the haggadah with Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's commentary.

The Ateret Tzvi commentary is based on Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch's compositions - Moriah and Horeb. A dedication to Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch was printed at the beginning.

94, [2] pages. 19.7 Cm.

Yaari 602; Otzar HaHaggadot 818.

In the same year, another edition was printed with R. Hirsch's commentary in German characters This edition with Yiddish is Very Rare!

Bound with:

2. Sefer Kol Sasson “with the prayers for Purim and Megillat Esther with the Ibn Ezra’s commentary” and a new commentary called the “Petuchei Chotem”, Yiddish translation on the Megillah including a second translation by Rabbi Rabbi Raphael Furstenthal.

First edition. Krotoschin, 1840.

64, 20 leaves. 

Both title pages with blind stamps of the famous Holy Gaon Rabbi Chaim Sofer (1821 –1886) was born in Pressburg and learned in the great Yeshiva of the Chasam Sofer where he was a prize talmid, known for his outstanding diligence, perspicacity and intellectual capacity. He was also a talmid of the MaHaRa”M Ash. He later learned under Rabbi Binyomin Wolf Lowey of Verbau (Shaarei Torah) whom he considered his primary Rebbe. He served as Rav in various important communities notably Munkacs and later Budapest.

Following the Chasam Sofer’s tradition, the Machaneh Chaim fiercely battled any attempt to introduce change or leniency into authentic Jewish tradition, and he was regarded as one of the greatest meishivim in all of Hungary. He served as Av Beis Din in Gyömöre, Sajószentpéter, and Munkacs, and was the Av Beis Din of Khal Adas Hayereim in Budapest, a position he accepted after the Chasam Sofer appeared to him in a dream and instructed him to accept the Rabbinate there. His written legacy includes the 8-volume Shu”t Machaneh Chaim.

Stamp: Herman Shlomo Janowitz.

Overall Good condition, some stains, some water and wine stains, some marginal worming in pages of Haggadah, original leather binding slightly rubbed