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Letter of Ha’Gaon Rabbi Akiva Sofer the Da’as Sofer – begging for help during the holocaust 1943


A letter from Ha’gaon Rabbi Akiva Sofer Ba’al Da’as Sofer, to Ha’Gaon Yehuda Leib Gurowitz Rav in Melbourne, Australia, begging for financial help for his yeshivah and thanking for prior donation.

Ha’Gaon Rabbi Akiva Sofer Ba’al Da’as sofer (1878-1960) was the son of Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer the Shevet Sofer, and was the fourth generation in the Chasam Sofer’s dynasty. He received semicha from Ha’Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Sofer AB”D of Paksh in 1902, and after the passing of his father in 1907 he was appointed AB”D in his stead in the city of Pressburg, at the young age of twenty-nine. He was Rosh Yeshiva of the famed Pressburg yeshivah and boys from all over Hungary flocked to the yeshivah. At the outbreak of the Holocaust in 1939 he was advised by his cousin the Hisorirus Teshuvah of Erlau to emigrate to Eretz Yisrael. He re-established his yeshivah in the Givat Shaul neighborhood in Jerusalem, where it became one of the largest and most important yeshivos of Yerushalayim. His seforim include Shu”t Da’as Sofer and Da’as Sofer the Torah.


1 typed Pg. on official yeshivas stationery with several additional handwritten lines from the Das’as Sofer.

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