Hebrat-Kimat-Hassot, ou, Schomrim-Labboker [appeal for funds for mystic midnight vigil society]

(ALEPPO).

circa

(Jerusalem)

1910

Text in French. With: “Reglements de la Societe.”

This appeal was issued by a unique society of Kabbalists attached to the historic R. Yochanan Ben Zakkai Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. The synagogue, destroyed by the Jordanians in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, has since been restored. The distinguished signatories on this appeal were all natives of Aleppo who immigrated to Jerusalem at the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century: R. Jomtob Jedid Levy (1856-1923); R. Ezra Harari Raffoul (1857-1936) and R. H[aim] Saul Dueck (1857-1933). See D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars (2005), pp. 172-78; 208-09; 351-52