Leaf in Oriental handwriting, a document signed by the Rishon L'Zion Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Ayash, members of the Beit Din and leading Sephardi sages of the city. Jerusalem, Rosh Chodesh Sivan 1814.
Regulations for Melamdim of the Talmud Torah (elementary schools) of the Sephardi community of Jerusalem containing eight clauses regarding the obligations of the Melamdim, the study schedules, the number of students and the teachers' salaries and their obligation to adhere to the regulations. Granting the appointed Gaba'im (agents) the power to dismiss teachers. On the margins are the signatures of the teachers, some of them well-known Jerusalem Torah scholars.
The first to sign is the Rishon L'Zion Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Ayash followed by (on the left) Rabbi Ya'akov Koral (successor as Rishon L'Zion) and after them Rabbi Yom Tov Danon (the Rishon L'zion after the Chikrei Lev), Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchak Meyuchas (Deputy Rishon L'Zion of Rabbi M. Suzin), undeciphered signature, Rabbi Yosef Yechiel Taragan (member of the Beit Din of Rabbi Y.M. Ayash also signed with him on the regulation regarding the production of cheese in Jerusalem, died 1820) and Rabbi Yehuda Uziel (also a sage of the same Beit Din, died in 1827).
[1] leaf. 21X30 cm. High-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Restored tears to paper folds.
Historical document shedding light on the life of the Sephardi community of Jerusalem.