It was growing late on Erev Yom Kippur when the Chasam Sofer summoned his daughter to carry out an important mission. She was to make her way to one end of Pressburg to inform an orphan boy that after Yom Tov the Chasam Sofer would propose a Shidduch with an orphan girl. Then she was to travel to the girl, at the other end of Pressburg, and bring her the same good news.
  While the daugher was willing to oblige, she couldn't help asking her father, "Isn't it too close to Kol Nidrei? Couldn't this wait a day?" Her saintly father replied, "My daughter, I must take this Mitzvah along with me to Shul. It cannot wait."Â
  The Chasam Sofer, whose account already overflowed with Mitvos, felt that this was the one he wanted to take to Shul. So potent a Chessed is a Shidduch, so much good does it do to have a hand in creating a new Jewish home, that this was a Mitzvah that couldn't wait.
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