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Manuscript of the Chatam Sofer - Homily on Purim and Megillat Esther - Mattersdorf, 1805

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Manuscript of the Chatam Sofer - Homily on Purim and Megillat Esther - Mattersdorf, 1805
Leaf (two written pages - 72 lines) handwritten by R. Moshe Sofer, author of Chatam Sofer. Homily - Aggadic novellae on Purim, Megillat Esther and Pesach Sheni. [Mattersdorf (Mattersburg), 1805].
Small-format leaf, handwritten on both sides by the Chatam Sofer. A title features at the top of the first page: "Pekudei, Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar II".
The Chatam Sofer writes (on the first page): "Every Jewish person should realize during the Megillah reading, the extent of the downfall of Haman, and the prominence of Mordechai… and according to that should rejoice with G-d, thanking and praising Him… and he should also then rejoice physically with eating and drinking…".
These Torah thoughts were published in Chatam Sofer - Derashot, Klausenberg 1929, on pp. 124b-125a, under the title: "Pekudei, homily for Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar II, for the Burial Society, 1805".
[1] leaf (2 written pages, 72 autograph lines). 24 cm. Good condition. Stains.