Large collection of letters and documents, halachic decisions, receipts and additional papers, from the estate of R. Shalom Yosef Alshich, head of the Yemenite Beit Din in Israel, including letters and documents signed by him and sent to him, including many signatures of Yemenite rabbis in Jerusalem.
The Yemenite rabbis and community leaders whose signatures appear on documents in the collection include: R. Avraham Chaim Nadaf, R. Shalom Yosef Iraqi, Chaim son of David Jamal, Yehudah son of Avraham Shalom Chabshush, R. Yosef Chiya HaLevi Alshich, and others.
This lot includes a halachic decision from 1901 signed by R. Yosef Nisim Burla (1828-1903, head of the Sephardic Beit Din in Jerusalem) and R. Vidal Chanoch Angel (dayan and head of the Beit Din, head of the Beit El kabbalistic yeshiva, d. 1907); and a record of testimony from 1930 signed by the witness "Amram Aburbeh" (1892-1967; dayan in Jerusalem and Chief Rabbi of Petach Tikva; author of Netivei Am books).
Also includes: Various visiting cards of R. Shalom Yosef Alshich and Shanah Tovah cards, invitations and printed items of the Yemenite Community Committee, and more.

R. Shalom son of Yosef HaLevi Alshich (1859-1944), a prominent kabbalist and head of the Yemenite Beit Din of Jerusalem and Chief Rabbi of the Yemenite community. Born in Sanaa, Yemen, he was a disciple of R. Chaim Korach and R. Yichya Badichi. He immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he strengthened Yemenite institutions in Jerusalem. He taught at the kabbalistic yeshivas Beit El and Rechovot HaNahar. He wrote commentaries on Yemenite piyyutim and himself composed many piyyutim expressing the Jewish longing to return to Eretz Israel.

Over 50 items, including 27 signed letters and documents. Varying size. Most in overall good condition.

Large assorted collection of letters, documents, receipts and various documents, most signed by Sephardic rabbis in Tiberias, between ca. 1900-1960.
Among other things, the collection includes: Official stationery and printed receipts, some printed in color, decorations and pictures of holy sites, filled in by hand and signed or stamped by the rabbis.

Some items included in the collection:
• Letter of blessing for the bar mitzvah of Mordechai son of Avraham Nachum, neatly written, with the signatures of the city rabbis (calligraphic signatures): R. Aharon Alchadif, the Chacham Bashi (with his stamp); R. Yehudah Toledano; R. Shmuel Ben-Kiki; R. David Soudri; R. Baruch Toledano and R. Machluf HaKohen. Tiberias, 25 Shevat [1900].
• Large printed leaf with Shanah Tovah wishes, from the Sephardic Jewish community in Tiberias, with the addressees, the brothers Ashkenazi, filled in by hand. Stamps of Tiberias institutions and signature-like stamps of R. Shmuel Ben-Kiki and R. Avraham Abuchatzeira. Tiberias, [ca. 1890s-1910s].
• Certificate declaring Yosef son of Yeshuah Zrihan unmarried, with (calligraphic) signatures and stamps of dayanim R. Shmuel Ben-Kiki (head of Tiberias Beit Din), R. Yaakov Chai Zrihan and R. Eliyahu Illouz. Tiberias, 1914.
• Certificate declaring Yosef son of Yeshuah Zrihan unmarried, signed and stamped by R. Chaim Yissachar Abulafia, the Chacham Bashi. Tiberias, 1914.
• Letter from the Chacham Bashi R. Chaim [son of R.] Aharon Alchadif to R. Bentzion Uziel. Lengthy handwritten letter [scribal writing?], with R. Alchadif's official stamp and signature-like stamp. Tiberias, Tamuz [1919].
• Reports on Torah and educational institutions in Tiberias, signed by R. Meir Vaknin. 1920s-1930s.
• Postcard with letter from R. Meir Vaknin to his son Pinchas Vaknin. 1943.
• Three postcards with letters handwritten and signed by R. Meir Vaknin (with his stamp), to R. Shimon Ohayon, a rabbi in Jaffa. Tiberias, Cheshvan and Kislev 1959.
• Receipts and signed letters (on official stationeries of the institutions in Tiberias), signed by the rabbis and emissaries: R. Yaakov Vaknin, R. Bechor Yehudah Vaknin, R. Chaim Yosef Maman, R. Refael Bibas, R. Yaakov Chai Zrihan, R. Shalom Malka, R. Baruch Toledano and others.
• Two photographs on postcards, with letters from R. Bechor Yehudah Vaknin. One postcard shows a photograph of a procession of Torah scrolls at the celebration of R. Meir Baal HaNes, and the other shows a photograph of R. Bechor Yehudah and his wife. Tiberias, Adar 1930 / Elul 1931.

28 letters and printed items. Varying size and condition.

Assorted collection of over thirty letters and documents, rulings issued by Beit Din and wills. Safed, ca. 1880s-1930s.
The signatories on letters and halachic rulings in the present collection include: R. Avraham Leib Silberman, Rabbi of Safed; R. Efraim Shraga Weingott, a rabbi in Safed; R. Nachum Etrog, a rabbi in Safed; dayanim of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem: R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, R. Bentzion Cuenca and R. Yerucham Fishel Berenstein; R. Baruch Kahana Malayov; R. David Kahana; R. Menachem Mendel Kahana; R. Yechiel Schneerson and his father R. Moshe Shalom Schneerson; and more.

33 paper items. Varying size and condition.

Collection of documents and publications of Orthodox organizations for purchasing land and settling in northern Jerusalem (in the Nabi Samwil area, near the tomb of the prophet Samuel), ca. 1920s. Includes signatures of: R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld [chief rabbi of the Edah HaCharedit], R. David Beharan, R. Asher Lemel Beharan, R. Yitzchak Tzvi Rivlin [rabbi in Zichron Moshe], R. Amram Blau [later head of Neturei Karta], R. Yisrael Yitzchak Reisman [later dayan of the Edah HaCharedit], and others.

• Letter from Ramatayim Tzofim, an organization for Orthodox settlements in Eretz Israel, signed by Yisrael Luria, on acquisition of land in Ramah. Jerusalem, 1923.
• Handwritten document from Ramatayim Tzofim, signed by rabbis and leaders of the organization, authorizing R. Avraham Hershkowitz to sell estates. Signed by directors of the company, R. David Beharan, R. Yechiel Yehudah Schlesinger, R. Eliyahu Tzvi Krauser, R. Amram Blau and R. Avraham Steiner; along with a letter of approval from the Beit Din Tzedek, signed by dayanim R. Yitzchak Frankel, R. Dov Tzvi Karlenstein and the scribe R. Avraham Chaim Naeh. On the margins of the leaf is a letter of approval and blessing handwritten and signed by R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld. Jerusalem, Tamuz 1924.
• Handwritten document with seven signatures, on the sale of a plot of land to R. Yosef Levi Chagiz – signed by R. Yitzchak Tzvi Rivlin, R. Matityahu Naftali Elbe, R. Asher Lemel Beharan [Weissfish], R. Aharon Sari Levi, R. David Yitzchak Altschuler, R. Yisrael Moshe Goldschmid and R. Alter Streltzer. Jerusalem, Tevet 1923. The signatures are crossed out, with the inscription "paid" [apparently the present document of sale was used as mortgage for a loan from the renowned Orthodox philanthropist R. Yosef Levi Chagiz].
• Kol Mevaser Yeshuah, printed poster with letters from the heads of Nachalat Yisrael Ramah and R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, on resettling the Ramah neighborhood, the residence of the prophet Samuel. Jerusalem, [ca. 1921-1922].
• Document of sale for land in the Nachalat Yosef neighborhood founded by Ramatayim Tzofim, filled in by hand with signatures of the directors of the organization: R. Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman, R. Pinchas Tzvi Shenberger, R. Moshe Holtzman, R. Abba Eisenbach and the secretary R. Amram Blau. Jerusalem, Elul 1922. On the verso is a confirmation dated 1985 on the voiding of the share, by a lawyer from Ramatayim Tzofim.
• Advertisement from the Peli Agency for brokerage services in purchasing plots of land in Jerusalem and the region, sold by the Tamuah company. [Jerusalem, ca. 1920s-1930s].

6 leaves. Varying size and condition (open tears at the top of the letter of authorization signed by R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld).

Collection of over 60 letters sent to R. Shmuel Salant by rabbis, tzedakah collectors, emissaries and philanthropists from England, South Africa, Australia and various countries in the British Empire. [Ca. 1880s-1900s].
The letters were sent to R. Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem. Some are also addressed to other rabbis who assisted him in managing the tzedakah funds in the city: R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim (the Aderet); R. Yitzchak Blazer, the Rabbi of St. Petersburg; R. Chaim Berlin, the Rabbi of Moscow; and additional rabbis and tzedakah collectors directing the Vaad HaKlali and other institutions in the city.
The authors of the letters include Yaakov Chaim son of R. Eliezer HaLevi (secretary of Montefiore); R. Eliyahu son of R. Shlomo Yaakov, a rabbi in Manchester; R. Moshe Avigdor Chaikin, Rabbi of the United Synagogue in London; R. Yoel HaLevi Herzog, a rabbi in Leeds (2 letters); R. Mordechai Yitzchak HaLevi Epstein, Rabbi of Sheffield; R. Aharon Leib Newman of Jerusalem, maggid in the Torah society in London; R. Yaakov Dov Ber son of Meir Moshe Lenzer, prayer leader of Mikveh Yisrael synagogue in Melbourne; R. Yehoshua Meir Reifman of Pretoria, South Africa; R. Aryeh Tzvi son of R. Moshe Fishel Isaacs, prayer leader and maggid of Kimberly, South Africa; the emissary R. Yosef HaLevi Horowitz of Johannesburg (4 interesting letters); R. Menachem Mendel Wolpert of Johannesburg (3 letters), and many more authors.

R. Shmuel Salant (1816-1909), immigrated from Salant to Eretz Israel in 1841 to serve as posek and rabbi of the Perushim community of disciples of the Vilna Gaon in Jerusalem. His father-in-law R. Yosef Zundel Salant immigrated to Jerusalem in the same period. In his capacity as rabbi of Jerusalem, a position he held for close to seventy years, he founded the educational and charitable institutions in the city, established the Beit Din and strengthened the Ashkenazi community. He was renowned for his brilliance and practical approach to halachic ruling and in running communal matters in Jerusalem and worldwide.

63 letters. Varying size and condition.