(CHID”A). Shadar Letter to Pisa.

Estimate

$2,000–$3,000

Hammer price

$9,500

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author

(AZULAI, CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID).

Place

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Publication

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Description

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

summary

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.

Together, two documents. Folio

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