{"id":41793,"date":"2012-03-16T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41793"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T17:56:23","slug":"the-chatam-sofer-wanted-his-daughters-to-marry-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41793","title":{"rendered":"The Chatam Sofer Wanted His Daughters To Marry Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moses_Sofer\">Chatam Sofer<\/a> lived at the turn of the 19th Century. His <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Responsa\">responsa<\/a> (answers to questions of Jewish law) are the most important responsa of the past 200 years according to Marc B. Shapiro who relates the following story in his eight lecture on the Chatam Sofer for Torah in Motion: When his daughters were ready to be married, he looked to marry them to rich Jews. 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