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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.
Shefa Bracha V’Hatzlacha Osher V’Osher V’kol Tuv
"… I hereby acknowledge your generous donation… Your donation arrived at an opportune time, as the financial situation of the yeshivah has gotten much worse… we are being implored to accept outstanding bachurim who are war refugees to the yeshivah… We were grateful to know that we have a true friend who worries for us… May you be granted only good from Hashem…"
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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