Large handwritten recommendation, issued by the rabbis of Marrakesh and with their signatures, given to the emissaries R. Eliyahu Illouz and his son R. Yosef Chaim Illouz, who were on a mission in Morocco. Marrakesh, [1900].
Large certificate, in neat scribal script. Signed by the Torah scholars and rabbis of Marrakesh: the head of the Beit Din R. Yaakov Benchaim; and the dayanim R. Avraham Benmoha, R. Yemin Kohen and R. Avraham Zrihen.
Additional authorization signed by R. Shlomo Assabag, also a dayan and rabbi in Marrakesh.
R. Eliyahu Illouz (1860-1929), rabbi of Tiberias, travelled on behalf of the Tiberias community to Morocco in the 1890s, and again in 1899 together with his son, R. Yosef Chaim Illouz (1880-1961), also a leading Torah scholar in Tiberias.
46X37 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Folding marks. Tears to folds and margins, affecting text.