Lot 423
Letter to Moshe Montefiore from Rabbi Shmuel Salant and Son Rabbi Binyamin Beinush – Jerusalem, 1853
Letter by Rabbi Shmuel Salant with signature of son Rabbi “Binyamin Beinush son of great Rabbi Shmuel Salant chief Av Beit Din of Kollel Perushim” – letter of thanks for gift of sermon which Moshe Montefiore delivered upon marriage of Rabbi Binyamin Beinush Salant. Jerusalem, 1853.
Rabbi Binyamin Beinush Salant (1838-1900), only son of Rabbi Shmuel Salant; immigrated with his father to Jerusalem in 1841 and in 1853 married daughter of Rabbi Yuzel Leon. Among seven founders of Nachalat Shiva neighborhood and among establishers of Even Yisrael, Mishkenot Moshe and Mazkeret Moshe neighborhoods.
27 cm. Thin bluish paper, good condition, slight creases. Letter in fine square writing without signature of Rabbi Shmuel Salant.
