The Maharam Schick—Rabbi Moshe Schick מהר״ם שיק
the first among the Chatam Sofer's students and the voice of Hungarian Orthodoxy
At Pressburg, under the Chatam Sofer, he was among the very first—and remained the truest. His great yeshiva he kept first at Jerge, then at Chust in the Carpathians: hundreds of students, and out of them the rabbis of half of Hungary.
After the Budapest congress of 1868–69, where the reformers prevailed, the Maharam Schick stood for full separation: an Orthodox community shares no roof with one that rebuilds the law. His responsa—about a thousand answers across all four parts of the Shulchan Arukh—hold that line with sources and a calm voice.
Of the surname itself they tell: Schick, from the initials of Shem Yisrael Kadosh—"the name of Israel is holy". A legend—but one that fit him.
Related
Sources
Acharonim and later rabbinic literature
- The responsa of the Maharam Schick — about a thousand answers; the separation of communities after the 1868–69 congress
Scholarship
- The standard reference works and encyclopedias — Pressburg, Jerge, Chust; 1807–1879
Basis: Talmud and midrash.