Collection of manuscripts, letters and documents by Rabbi Yeshua Palagi and rabbis of Safed, (1910-1938).
Collection includes: Halachic responsa in the handwriting of Rabbi Yeshua Palagi, lists of homiletics and eulogies. * Public and family letters by Rabbi Yeshua and letters to him. * Letters by his son-in-law Rabbi (Avraham) Na'im Shichrur and letters to him. * Various letters from rabbis of Safed (Rabbi Ezra Chaim HaCohen, Rabbi Yosef Chai HaLevi and others), Rabbis of Tiberias and rabbis of countries of the Levant and the Maghreb. * Report notebook on letters pertaining to Kollels of Safed (letters to worldwide rabbis mentioned: Rabbi Raphael Chaim Moshe Ben Na'im (Rav HaRachaman) of Gibraltar, Rabbi Moshe Meir Chai Elyakim (Rav HaMesame'ach) of Mogador, Rabbi Rephael Ankava of Sali, Rabbi Ya'akov son of Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad and others. Letter to the government regarding renovation of yard of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai which was ruined by the farmers. End of notebook contains lists and financial reports signed by Rabbi Raphael Menasheh Antebi - apparently the entire notebook is in his handwriting). * Transaction bills and notary documents, and more.
The Ga'on Rabbi Yeshua Palagi, born in 1870, served for many years as member and chief of Beit Din in Safed. The majority of the rabbis of Safed in the generation following him were his disciples. In approximately 1937 he moved to Jerusalem. His son-in-law, Rabbi Avraham Na'im Shichrur, among the Torah scholars of Jerusalem and Safed, served as rabbinical emissary of Kollels of Safed.
Dozens of leaves and several notebooks, total of over eighty leaves. Various sizes and conditions.