Letter – Halachic Response from the Gaon Maharam Schick to the Author of "Aruch LaNer"

Halachic response letter from the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Schick, Rebbe of Yeregin, to Rabbi Ya'akov Ettlinger, Rebbe of Altona and author of "Aruch LaNer." Yeregin, 1848.
This lengthy response was written for publication in the biblical anthology "Shomer Zion HaNe'eman," as a rebuttal to the writings of the author of "Aruch LaNer" who criticized the words of his teacher and rabbi, the "Chatam Sofer," concerning the growth of chametz.
The response opens with a signed letter, "Moshe Schick of Rezawa". He writes to the "Well-known Gaon Ya'akov Ettlinger Rebbe of Altona… I am here to ask… to be given space between the leaves of "Shomer Zion"…".
A handwritten inscription by Maharam Schick appears on the upper part of the leaves "I copied to Siman 208 Orach Chaim," and indeed this response was printed in Maharam Schick Responsum (Munkatch, 1880) in Orach Chaim, Siman 208. Presented here is the complete response in Maharam Schick's own handwriting, including the letter (which wasn't printed in the book).
Rabbi Moshe (Maharam) Schick (1807-1979, Otzar HaRabbanim 15194), an outstanding Gaon, was amongst the greatest rabbis of his generation and one of the leaders of Hungarian Jewry. At the age of 14, he joined the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer and within a short time became one of its most important students. He served as rabbi of the city of Yeregin near Pressburg for many years, afterwards serving as rabbi of Chust, where he established a yeshiva and taught renowned disciples until his death. He left a vast amount of Torah works including responsa, sermons, novellae on the Talmud, on the six-hundred and thirteen mitzvot, etc. He was amongst the fiercest rivals of the reformists.
4 pp, 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition, restored damages at edges of leaves with minor text omissions. Leather binding.