(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 289

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Manuscript on paper. Bikur Cholim, establising a plan to create a hospital for the poor of Jerusalem. Signed by the Principal OF THE KABBALISTIC YESHIVA BETH EL, Raphael Abraham Shalom Mizrachi Deyadea Sharabi, Joseph Zamiro, Yaakov ibn Tzahal and Abraham Moshe Zacut One leaf. In Sephardic cursive script

Jerusalem: 1815

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

Authorization letter for two emissaries to solicit funds for the newly established Chevrath Bikur Cholim. According to Frumkin, the first signatory on this emissary letter Shalom Sharabi (author of Divrei Shalom), was a well known kabbalist, grandson and namesake of Shalom Sharabi and father-in-law of the Rishon Le-Zion, Abraham Gagin (d. 1827). See Y. Badhav, Ki Be-Yitzchak (1928) p. 4; A.Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael, pp. 711-12; A.L. Frumkin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim (1928-30) p. 204-06. THE EARLIEST RECORD OF A BIKUR CHOLIM ESTABLISHED FOR THE POOR OF JERUSALEM