Bidspirit auction | LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR FUNDRAISING

LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR FUNDRAISING MISSION OF RABBI CHAIM BARUCH MAISTRO OF HEBRON. AMSTERDAM 5575 [1815]. Printed broadside in support of the mission of Rabbi Chaim Baruch Maistro on behalf of the Hebron community. Letter in Hebrew and Juedish-Deutsch describing the community’s debt of 100,000 and the compromise made by the Pasha over the payment of interest on the debt, for which the rabbis and elders of the Hebron community had been imprisoned. Signed by Hebron rabbis: R. Yehuda bar Shmuel, R. Yehuda Rusu, R. Chaim Yehoshua Bajayu, R. Chaim HaLevy, R. Yosef HaLevy, R. Chaim Yissachar Hason and R. Eleazar Archa, and published by the ‘Pekidei Umashgichei Hebron’ [Officers and supervisors of Hebron]: Refael Polichron Yerushalmi, Yitzchak Karmona and Chaim Frisko, and the ‘Pekidei Umashgichei Ir Hakodesh’ [Officers and supervisors of the Holy City] in Amsterdam: Itzik ben Natta Guteinde, Avraham ben Ahron Printz of Alkmahr and Tzvi Hirsh Lehren. Several words in contemporary handwriting on the margin, mentioning the Rabbi of London [Rabbi Shlomo Hirshel]. Also signed by Officers of the community: Mendel Levi Tal and Hirsh ben Moshe. For details of this fundraising mission, see Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael pp. 607. Amsterdam. Printed by David ben Yaakov Proops Katz. 1815. Very rare. Unrecorded by the Mifal Habibliografia or by the Israel National Library. 1 side. 23.5 x 38.5 cm. Good condition.