Auction 6 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

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Historical letters- Safed

Opening: $200
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
1. A response letter from Rabbi Aharon Ben Shimon from Safed, regarding a din torah with Leibeish Bromfler who had opened a factory in a yard nearby an area known to be (by word from generation to generation) as the house of Maran Beis Yosef. 8 pages.
2. A letter to Rabbi Yeshua Falagi, one of Safed's Rabbinical leaders, from a poor man who tried his luck in Jerusalem. The writer asks the Rabbi to tell his wife to sell all their belongings and come with their children and join him in Jerusalem. Knowing that the money she will receive from selling their belongings will not cover the cost of transportation (!) he asks that the tzedakkah organization should give her the missing amount (Cheshvan 1936)
3. A mission letter to Egypt. 1931. 2 pages signed by the Rabbis of Safed: Rabbi Yeshua Falagi, Rabbi Refael Menashe Antebi, Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi, Rabbi Chaim HaKohen and others.
Various sizes and conditions.
Letters
Letters