Goral Kodesh al Kethivath Sepher Torah…LeBeth Hamidrash… R. Shimon Bar Yochai.

A raffle-book for a charity organized under the supervision of the Beth Din of Safed, seeking to raise funds for the composition of a new Torah Scroll to be placed at the tomb of R. Shimon Bar Yochai. With well over a hundred names of buyers on receipts numbered 16-249, with comments concerning methods of payment. In addition to personal names, identification of occupation and town of origin also recorded. <<Tipped in:>> Two page letter (dated 1897) written to the Chassidic Rabbi Moshe Hager, presently in Haifa, from the Chevrah Zohar, Shas, Mishnayoth, VeShulchan Aruch BeBeth Hamidrash Rashb’i of Safed, containing a list of 37 names of women and the amounts of charitable pledges. Important for record of names of those living in the Safed area at the end of the 19th-century.