JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. CHATAM SOFER - BRATISLAV/ESLOVÁQUIA
MEMORIAL CHATAM SOFER EM BRATISLAV - ESLOVAQUIA Shalom! World. Today is: Sunday, Tishrei 25, 5774 · September 29, 2013. Passing of Chatam Sofer (1839) Tishrei 25th is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Moshe Sofer of Pressburg (1762-1839), known as "Chatam Sofer" after his work of Rabbinic responsa. Rabbi Moshe was an outstanding Halachic authority and community leader, and was at the forefront of the battle to preserve the integrity of traditional Judaism in the face of the various "reformist" movements of his time. Shalom! Aleichem.