Der Heiligeh Tchebiner Rav-And the Teshuvas Chasam Sofer

Der Heiligeh Tchebiner Rav zt"l -Chodesh Av

The Machtzis Hashekel (O.Ch.417) quotes the Hagahos Mordechai

in the name of the Tosefta, that there is no Rosh Chodesh Bentching

for the month of Av.

Many Poskim argue and hold that we do Bentch on Shabbos,

Rosh Chodesh Av. The Minhag is to bentch Chodesh Menachem Av,

even though the month is Called Av (no Menachem). We say it so

that we should be zoche to have the Geulah etc. (Aruch Hashulchan E.H. 126)

There are Sheilos if with the word Menachem in a Get causes problems.

They once asked from The Tchebiner Rav zt”l  how to date letters & documents  written in the month of Av.

 He told them the answer can be found  in the Teshuvos Chasam Sofer, Orach Chaim.

They came back to the Tchebiner Rav and told him they searched the

whole Sefer and couldn’t find any such discussion.

He told them , “when learning a Teshuvas Chasam Sofer, it is not enough

to learn the text, but one needs to learn the date as well.

If you check Teshuvos # 32, 33, 35, 37, The ones written before  Tisha B’av 

the Chasam Sofer dates it as Av. The ones written after Tisha B’av he dates them

Menachem or Menachem Av.

I leafed through the seven volumes of Shu”t  Ch. S. (1246 Teshuvos)

and found, there are aproximately 150 Teshuvous written by the Chasam Sofer

in the month of Av. All of them follow the rule of the TchebinerRav zt”l,

The ones dated Before 9^th Av are dated as Av. The ones after 9^th Av are dated as

Menachem.

However there are two days, the 13^th and 15^th of Av  where the Ch. S. dates them

Av, even though they are after 9^th Av.

It is possible the 15^th of Av being it is mentioned in the Mishna (end m. Ta’anis)

as Chamisha Asar B’av, The Ch. S. didn’t  want to change from the Loshon of the Mishna*.

On the 13^th of Av the only explanation I can think of,  being it is the Yahrzeit

of his first Rebbetzin שרל.

15^th of Av                      13^th of Av

O.Ch. 60                         O.Ch. 115

Y.D. 129                          O.Ch. 158

E.H. 2: 72                        Y.D. 43

Chelek 6 41

Chelek 7 18

*There is one Teshuva (E.H. 2 : 125) on the 15th  he dated as Menachem.