Shadar Letter for emissary [shd”r = shelucha De-Rabbanan]. Signed by the leaders of the Perushim

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 246

(LAND OF ISRAEL)

Shadar Letter for emissary [shd”r = shelucha De-Rabbanan]. Signed by the leaders of the Perushim

Manuscript on paper. One leaf. Various Aschkenazic signatures. Signed by R. Chaim Cohen, formely Rabbi of Pinsk; R. Yisrael of Shklov (now Safed), author of Takin Chaditin; Nathan Nata b. R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov, (now of Jerusalem); Nathan Nata b. R. Saadia of Jerusalem; Aryeh Leib b. R. Yoseph Leon; Shlomo Zalman b. R. Zev Wolf HaCohen; Tzvi Hirsch b. Zerach Shapiro

Jerusalem: 1831

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

Emissary Letter, for the purposes of raising funds for the families of the Kollelim founded by the disciples of the “...Gaon Ha-geonim...Meor Ha-golah Rabeinu Eliahu Ha-Chasid.” The signatories were some of the most prominent disciples(or sons of disciples) of the Vilna Gaon who emigrated to Eretz Israel. See A.L. Frumkin, Toldot Chachmei Yerushalayim, (1928-30). Some of these signatories themselves later became emissaries (see Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael, pp. 785-86). The emissaries sent as official representatives of the communities in Eretz Israel were for the most part eminent scholars. Many of them published significant Rabbinical works and gave approbations to the work of others that they encountered during their travels. Many became involved in indigenous communal matters and sought to resolve internal conflicts. This emissary, R. Tzvi Hirsch b. Yehudah, is not mentioned by Yaari in his definitive Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael