(CHID”A). Shadar Letter to Pisa.

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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(AZULAI, CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID).

(CHID”A). Shadar Letter to Pisa.

Manuscript on paper. One leaf. Sephardic cursive script with six signature of the Rabbis of Chevron (including R. Chaim Ze’evi, R. Chaim Judah Gomitz Fato, R.Isaac Hacohen). Announcing the Chid”a will visit the Community of Pisa on behalf of the destitute of Hebron. Those contributing will be blessed at the Cave of Machpela. Hebron, 1772. * WITH: Shadar Letter. Printed broadside with manuscript additions, to the Pisa Community on behalf of Abraham Azulai (son of the Chid”a) signed by the Rabbis of Jerusalem including R. Yom Tov Algazi. Jerusalem, 1788 Together, two documents. Folio

v.p: v.d

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $9,500

The Chid”a was perhaps the most famous scholarly emissary from the Holy Land to the communities of Europe. See A. Yaari, Shluchei Eretz Yisrael (1977) pp.569-580.