Yismach Moshe, booklet containing legal ruling of the Rishon LeTzion R. Avraham Ashkenazi, together with short legal rulings from Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis of Eretz Israel, Constantinople, Izmir, Egypt and Russia, regarding the will of the caid Nassim Shamama. [Jerusalem: printer not indicated, 1874].
Printed without a title page. The booklet is named for Moshe Shamama, one of the heirs. At the beginning of the booklet is printed the main legal ruling of the Rishon LeTzion R. Avraham Ashkenazi, holding that Shamama's will is legally binding, despite absence of customary Jewish methods of acquisition.
Some rulings in the book are stamped by rabbis and Batei Din (in lithography).

Nassim Shamama (in French: Nessim Samama; 1805-1873), a Tunisian Jew who served as caid (head, leader) of the Jewish community in Tunis. Shamama worked in tandem for the Husainids, becoming extremely wealthy in the process. After an official trip to Paris, he left France for Italy due to the Franco-Prussian War, where he died childless, having left behind a will, which led to an extended conflict between the heirs and rabbis regarding its halachic validity.
Signature: "Yeshuah HaLevi", and stamp: "Yeshuah HaLevi, Lisbon" – R. Yeshuah HaLevi, Rabbi of Lisbon, author of Li LiYeshuah (Jerusalem 1883) and Otzar Chaim (Jerusalem 1908).

20 leaves. 22.5 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Light traces of former dampness to margin of some leaves. Small marginal tears to several leaves. New binding.

Sh. Halevy, no. 208.