Auction 38 · Lot 289
(ISRAEL, LAND OF)
- Estimate
- $6,000–$8,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Jerusalem
Publication
1815
Description
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
summary
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
One leaf. In Sephardic cursive script
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