Beit din authorizations and testimony forms, by Kiev and Minsk rabbis. 1883-1884.
• Handwritten leaf, authorization signed and stamped by R. Shemarya Luria, regarding the death of R. Chaim son of R. Menachem Nachum Meisel, in a hospital in Kiev in the month of Tamuz 1883. Kiev, 9 Tevet 1884. In the margins is an authorization of receiving testimony of R. Shemarya, supervisor of the Jewish patients of the hospital, signed by the city rabbis, R. Aharon Zeev Wolf Weil and R. Menachem Mendel of Kiev. Kiev, 9 Tevet 1884.
On the verso is an authorization of the Slutsk beit din, identifying the handwriting and signature of R. Aharon Zeev Wolf, Rabbi of Kiev, signed by the following dayanim: R. "Yosef Zundel of Salant" [a dayan in Slutsk during the time of the Beit HaLevi and R. Meir Feimer; apparently, a relative of the tzaddik R. Yosef Zundel of Salant; died in Jerusalem in 1861]; R. David son of R. Shaul Segal and R. Yosef Aharon son of R. Hillel HaKohen Gershenowitz. Slutsk, 15 Shevat 1884.
• Letter handwritten and signed by R. Aharon Zeev Wolf Weil, Rabbi of Kiev, to "R. Meir" [apparently, R. Meir Feimer, Rabbi of Slutsk], with a repeated testimony on the same matter. On the verso is a testimony by R. Shemarya son of R. Menachem Nachum Luria of Mohilev, supervisor of the local hospital, regarding the illness and death of R. Chaim Meisel of Romaniv, in the hospital in Kiev, on Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 1883. Signed by the dayanim: R. Aharon Zeev Wolf, R. Meir Yaakov son of Yitzchak Zvi HaKohen and R. Avraham son of Moshe. Kiev, 15 Shevat 1884.
[2] leaves, approx. 21 cm. Written on both sides. Good to fair-good condition. Stains,
tears and folding marks.
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