Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Emissary Letter Signed by Rabbi Yisrael of Shklow and Disciples of the Vilna Gaon – Jerusalem and Safed, 1830
Handwritten letter containing a request to support the settlements of the Gaon of Vilna's disciples in Safed and Jerusalem. Signed by R. Yisrael of Shklow and other leading disciples of the Gaon of Vilna. Jerusalem and Safed, Kislev 1830.
An appeal letter given to the emissary R. Tzvi Hirsh son of R. Yehuda, with a blank space for the emissary to fill in the name of the donor.
Signed by R. Chaim Kohen (previously rabbi in Pinsk, served as rabbi in Safed until his passing in 1831); R. Yisrael of Shklow (disciple of the Gaon of Vilna); R. Natan Neta son of R. Mendel (leader of the first group of disciples of the Gaon of Vilna who immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1809, d. 1846); R. Natan Neta son of R. Saadia (attendant of the Gaon of Vilna, d. 1849); R. Aryeh Leib son of R. Yosef Leon (head of the Ashkenazi Yishuv in Safed); R. Aryeh son of R. Yerachmiel Markus of Keidan (1800-1877; trustee of Kollel Perushim in Jerusalem and founder of the Hurva synagogue); R. Shlomo Zalman son of R. Ze'ev Wolf HaKohen (emissary for Eretz Israel, d. 1847 in Calcutta).
[1] leaf. 24 cm. Good condition. Stains. Marginal worming, not affecting text.
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