(MahRa”M Schick, 1807-1879). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew

SCHICK, MOSHE

Yergin

1853

Ketav "Moreinu" (Semicha ) document for Joseph Schenberger

The Mahara”m Schick was one of the most prominent Hungarian Rabbis of his time and the foremost disciple of the Chatham Sofer. He was a fierce opponent of the leaders of the Reform Movement and greatly supported Samson Raphael Hirsch in his dispute with the anti-Reform congregation of Frankfurt. As principal successor to his master, the Chatham Sofer, the Mahara”m Schick was famed for his intellectual alacrity, quickly responding to even the most complicated questions of halachic law. In this document, the Mahara”m Schick lavishly praises Joseph Schenberger who previously studied in Pressburg under the Kethav Sofer and is hereby suited to carry on all occasions the honorific "Moreinu HaRav" See M.A.Z. Kinstlicher, HaChatham Sofer ve’Talmidav (2005) pp. 362-67