Certificate with letters of recommendation and signatures, from Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis of Safed and Tiberias. Safed, 1858–1860.
Certificate in square script, recommendation to support R. Yaakov of Safed (grandson of the Chavat Daat).
The first signatories are rabbis of Safed: R. Shmuel Heller, R. Mordechai Silberman, R. Baruch Kahana and others.
Further on the leaf, to the right, is a letter of recommendation (in Oriental script), from the Sephardi rabbis of Safed, signed by R. Refael Maman, R. Shmuel Abbou and others. To the left is a letter of recommendation (in Oriental script), signed by R. Chaim Shmuel HaKohen of Tiberias, followed by other recommendations (in Ashkenazic script), signed by R. Yaakov Moshe of Kosov, R. Shlomo Heilperin, and others.
Additional recommendation at the foot of the leaf (5 lines), handwritten and signed by R. Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Heilperin of Botoshan (disciple of R. Baruch of Medzhibuzh).
R. Shmuel Heller (1786–1884), prominent Torah scholar and physician, rabbi of Safed for sixty years.
R. Mordechai Silberman (1819–1872), rabbi of Uman and later dayan in Safed and Tiberias.
R. Baruch Kahana, dayan in Safed in the 1860s.
R. Shmuel Abbou (1789–1879), rabbi of the Sephardic community in Safed and consul of France. Rebuilt Safed after the earthquake in 1837.
R. Refael Maman (1810–1882) from Meknes (Morocco). Dayan in Safed and later rabbi of Tiberias.
R. Chaim Shmuel HaKohen (d. 1873). Born in Italy, he served as chief rabbi of Tiberias for thirty years.
R. Yaakov Moshe, dayan and posek in Kitov and Kosov, and later in the Safed Beit Din.
The last signatory, R. Chaim Yitzchak Eizik Heilperin (d. 1867), disciple of R. Baruch of Medzhibuzh. Head of the Botoshan Beit Din until 1858, when he immigrated to Safed.

[1] leaf. Approx. 37 cm. Fair–good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Tears and open tears to folds, affecting text, repaired with paper.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, 057.011.031.