Agreement for distribution of joint ownership of the land among the four founders of the Nachalat Shiv'a neighborhood signed by Rabbi Shmuel Moni Zilberman, Rabbi Michel HaCohen, Rabbi Yosef Rivlin, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Salant, Rabbi Binyamin Beinish Salant, Rabbi Yehoshua Yellin and Rabbi Aryeh Leib Horowitz. Jerusalem, 1871.
The Nachalat Shiv'a neighborhood was one of the first Jewish neighborhoods built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1869. The neighborhood was named for the seven first pioneers who founded it: Rabbi Yosef Rivlin [who lived alone in the neighborhood for two years], Rabbi Yoel Moshe Salomon, Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Kovner, Rabbi Yehoshua Yellin, Rabbi Leib Horwitz of Lomza, Rabbi Michel HaCohen and Rabbi Binyamin Beinish Salant. Five of the seven founders signed this document.
To our knowledge, this document is not known. Among other things, it shows that Rabbi Yehuda Leib Salant was a joint owner [together with his nephew Rabbi Beinish Salant] of the land of Nachalat Shiv'a, although he was not known to be one of the seven founders of the neighborhood.
30 cm. leaf. Good condition, creased and folding marks.