Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Letters Sent to the Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shmuel Salant and to the Va'ad HaKlali

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Various letters and documents regarding matters of charity and chesed to the inhabitants of Jerusalem referred to Rabbi Shmuel Salant and to the Va'ad HaKlali, 1889-1915.
• Letter signed by Rabbi Natan Adler Av Beit Din of London, to Rabbi Shmuel Salant. London, 1898. • Letters signed by "Shmuel ben Asher", from the home of Baron Rothschild, London, 1889-1891. • Letter by Yosef Sabag Montefiore, [nephew of Moses Montefiore, head of the Sephardic community of London and manager of the charity funds and Montefiore's estates] in which he requests that the city's rabbis send him a list of 70 people which includes 10 widows who will be entitled to charity from the charity funds. London, 1902. • Signed receipt of Kollel Wołyń for money sent by Rabbi Avraham David Lavat Av Beit Din of Aleksandrovsk [great-grandfather of the Lubavitch Rebbe]. 1905. • Two letters of "tzetlach" for payment, by Jerusalem rabbis: Rabbi Yisrael Isser ben Rabbi M. HaLevi who signed the “cherem” on the schools] and who writes to pay for the expenses of “bathing in the sea” for an ill person. Rabbi “Aryeh Leib ben Rabbi E. Dayan [Rabbi Leib Dayan] who writes to pay the shamash of the Badatz for “wood for heating the Badatz residence”. • Letter signed by Dayanim Rabbi Meir Israel and Rabbi Bezalel Yeshaya Bernstein, “Great Beit Din of the Ashkenazi community”, payment for pasting notices “To pray for the peace of the kingdom” – for the success of the Turkish army during World War I, Jerusalem, 1915. • Various other letters.
10 items, Varied size and condition.
Letters
Letters