Avraham Shmuel Binjamin Sofer
Avraham Shmuel Binjamin Wolf Sofer ( Hebrew אַבְרָהָם שמואל בנימין סופר) also Abraham Samuel Benjamin Wolf Sofer , known by the name of his main work as Ktav Sofer (born March 13, 1815 in Pressburg ; died December 31, 1871 there ), was a Hungarian Orthodox rabbi , a leading figure in Hungarian Judaism in the second half of the nineteenth century and Rosh Yeshiva the Bratislava yeshiva .
At the age of only 24, Sofer followed his father, Moses Sofer (1762–1839) known as Chatam Sofer , after his death as a rabbi in Pressburg. Like his father, he was a strong and influential leader of the community, the most important yeshiva in Hungary at the time , and an important scholar of Orthodox Judaism. Joseph Chaim Sonnenfeld was one of his students .
At the Jewish congress held in Budapest in 1868 , which mainly focused on the long-simmering dispute between Orthodox and Reform Jews and the future direction of Hungarian Judaism, he was one of the dominant representatives of Orthodoxy, which ultimately resolved itself into its own, organized independent communities.
After his death, his son Simcha Bunim Sofer ( Shevet Sofer ) took over the Bratislava rabbinate and headed the yeshiva. Another son, Shimon Sofer , who was later murdered in Auschwitz , was a rabbi in Eger . Shimon's grandson, Raw Yochanan Sofer , founded several synagogues in the USA and one in Israel, each under the name Kehillah Kedosha Ksav Sofer (German: "Holy Congregation KS").
family
Sofer's parents were the Bratislava rabbi Moshe Sofer (1762–1839) and his second wife Sarel Eger (1790–1832), daughter of Akiba Eger , who was regarded as the greatest Talmudist of his time and who later became rabbi of Posen . He himself was married to Chavah Leah Weiss. The marriage had ten children:
- Yaakov Akiva Sofer († 1912)
- Moshe M. Sofer († 1927)
- Simcha Bunim Sofer († 1907)
- Yitzchak Leib Sofer († 1907)
- Shimon Sofer
- Shlomo Sofer
- Sarel Sofer
- Rachel Sofer
- Hindel Sofer
- Rosa Sofer
Web links
- Awraham Shmuel Binjamin Sofer in the Jewish Virtual Library, accessed on August 3, 2012
- Alfred Bodenheimer : The Little Difference , Jüdische Allgemeine , May 3, 2007
Footnotes
- ^ A b Berel Wein: Triumph of Survival: The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1990 , Mesorah Publications, 1990, ISBN 9780899064987 , p. 149; limited preview in Google Book search
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| SURNAME | Sofer, Avraham Shmuel Binjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sofer, Avraham Shmuel Binjamin Wolf (full name); Sofer, Abraham Samuel Benjamin Wolf; Sofer, Ktav; אַבְרָהָם שמואל בנימין סופר (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pressburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1871 |
| Place of death | Pressburg |