Letter from "the general committee of the Ashkenazi kollels in the Holy Land", signed by five committee directors, with several lines of blessings at the end, signed by R. Shmuel Salant, with his signature and stamp. Jerusalem, Adar I, 1894.

Addressed to R. Meir Morris, a collector and agent for Eretz Israel in Chicago, United States, with a request to transfer the funds raised to emissary R. Avraham Katznelson. Signed by: R. Shmuel Muni Silberman, R. Ziskind Shachor, R. Elimelech Perlman, R. Shimon Elazar Kahana, and the committee scribe R. Yosef Rivlin. With large stamp of the committee (with an illustration of the Western Wall and the site of the Temple).

R. Shmuel Salant (1816-1909), studied in Salant along with his friend R. Yisrael Salanter (the founder of the Musar movement). As early as the age of 14, his opinion was relied on by leading rabbis in halachic ruling. He immigrated to Israel in 1841 to serve as posek and Rabbi of the Jerusalem community of the Vilna Gaon's students, and he served as Rabbi of Jerusalem for about 70 years, established educational and charitable institutions in the city, and founded a Beit Din.

R. Elimelech Perlman, an important leader of the Chassidic community and institutions in Jerusalem.

R. Yosef (Yoshe) Rivlin (1836-1896), a builder of the new city of Jerusalem, a founder of Nachalat Shivah and many neighborhoods in Jerusalem; was also a leader of the "Knesset Yisrael General Committee", the union of kollels of Ashkenazi Jews in Jerusalem and other holy cities in Eretz Israel.

[1] leaf. Official stationery. 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear and folds. Tears to folds and margins (repaired with tape on verso).

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