(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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

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Lot 283

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Large Shadar Document authorizing the emissary R. Yaakov Vaeknin to on behalf of Kupath Reb Meir Baal HaNess to Tunisia and Libya. Signed by 49 Rabbis and leaders of Tiberias including Shimon Nachmani, Yitzchak Shalom Mizrachi, Chaim Kasous,Yaakov Birdugo, Yaakov Chai Zareihon etc. 31x 20 inches

Tiberias: 1922

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,000

Shelucha DeRachmana (Shada”r) was the honorific given to rabbinical emissaries sent on overseas fund-raising missions on behalf of religious institutions in Eretz Israel. These men were generally dedicated scholars of the highest repute whose task it was to deepen ties between Jews in the Diaspora and the Holy Land. The emissary recorded in the present document, R. Yaakov Vaeknin (1868-1947) was a member of a prominent Sephardic family of Tiberias. Son-in- law of R. Yehudah Birdugo, R. Vaeknin was a Kabbalist and Dayan in Tiberias. See S. Vanunu, Encyclopedia Arzei HaLevanon (2006) Vol. II p. 1129.