Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Not the Moses Sofer you were thinking of.

Here is a pair of unfortunate stories about a man named Moses Sopher.


Moses Sopher gunned down and was gunned down in 1900 himself by a man who had arrested him two years earlier. But this would not be the first life he took. It appears that in 1884 he and his father - also named Moses Sopher - got drunk, quarreled and the elder Sopher wound up stabbed to death.

6 comments:

  1. This is the most random post ever.

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  2. I would argue that it's on topic.

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  3. Maybe it would have been more on point if the son's name were "Shimon".

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  4. My "huh?" was directed at S. 'Ahl A-Kittab's point makes total sense.

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  5. Fred, you already posted about the Sofer gun battle once before.

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