Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Ledger of an Emissary of the Shaar HaShamayim Yeshiva – Letters by Rabbi Kook, Jerusalemite Rabbis and Rabbis of the Yeshiva

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Ledger of an emissary of the Shaar HaShamayim kabbalist yeshiva and its branches – the "Grand Rabbinical College" and the Talmud Torah of the Sephardi community. Jerusalem, Tevet-Shevat 1928-1929.
Decorative title page, in black, red, silver and gold. The ledger opens with a letter from the management of the yeshiva – a call for financial support (square script, with amendments in cursive script), with the handwritten signatures of the yeshiva deans: R. Chaim Yehuda Leib Auerbach and R. Shimon Tzvi Horowitz. This is followed by a short letter signed and stamped by R. Yaakov Meir the Rishon LeZion (the letter and signature of R. Yaakov Meir seem to have been placed by stamp, only the date written by hand), with another two signatures and two stamps from Tangier and Marseille.
On p. [6a], a letter from the Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, written by a scribe in square script, with a signature-stamp of R. Kook (in Rashi script and English) and his official stamp.
This ledger was prepared for the emissary R. Levi Suissa, who traveled to cities in North Africa, Spain, France and Belgium.
[6] written leaves (7 written pages and many blank pages). 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. A few tears. Minor worming. Original binding.


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Jerusalem and Eretz Israel – Letters and Printed Matter
Jerusalem and Eretz Israel – Letters and Printed Matter