Moshe Sofer - The Chasam Sofer: Difference between revisions

Born in Frankfurt to a simple family. From his youth, he was known as a great iluy and wrote Torah chiddushim. At age nine, he began learning with Rabbi Nosson Adler, who followed kabbalistic customs, and later with Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz. As a result, the Chasam Sofer was greatly influenced by the path of Chassidus. The Rebbe wrote that his being a student of Rabbi Nosson Adler and Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz, who was a student of the Maggid of Mezritch, led to Rabbi Moshe including sayings from Chassidic leaders, including the Alter Rebbe, in his sefer "Chasam Sofer."

His attitude toward the students of the Baal Shem Tov was one of admiration and bitul.