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Chanukat HaBayit – Letters of Rabbis in Support of the Doresh Tzion Torah School – Jerusalem, 1869 – Rare Booklet, Recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Based on This Copy
Chanukat HaBayit, copies of various letters of rabbis for the support of the Doresh Tzion Torah school in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: [R. Yisrael Bak, 1869].
The booklet includes letters by the Rishon LeTzion R. Avraham Ashkenazi (along with the Torah scholars of the Sephardic community), rabbis of the Maghrebi community, rabbis of the Knesset Yechezkel yeshiva and teachers in the Doresh Tzion school in Jerusalem, addressed to the Dorshei Shelom Yerushalayim society in Paris, which funded the establishment of the Torah school and provided clothing for the students.
8 pages (folded sheet, untrimmed). 18 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Creases and folding marks. Placed in a new case.
Rare. Does not appear in Sh. Halevy.
Recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew based on the present copy, from the David Sofer collection.
PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.