Handwritten manuscript, official announcement with detailed updating and an additional paragraph to the original will of Rabbi Yosef Shaul Nathansohn, from 1843. Lemberg, 1870.
In this additional paragraph Rabbi Nathansohn instructs to allocate after his death the amount of 5000 Crone for charity; 40% of this amount should be donated to the Jewish community hospital and the balance to poor relatives, the poor people of the city and other poor people as well as for Passover provision for the needy. He also instructs to deposit the document with the management of the hospital. The document ends with his signature and the signature of five witnesses.
Two enclosures are attached to this document which confirm that the management of the hospital was informed of this paragraph and undertook to act accordingly in the future, ink-stamps and signatures of the community members, fund-collectors, hospital management members and witnesses.
The Ga'on Rabbi Yosef Shaul Nathansohn (1808-1875), a leading rabbinical authority in his generation, was born in Berzan, Galicia. He wrote, with his brother-in-law Rabbi Mordechai Zeev Ettinger the books "Mefarshei Ha-Yam" on Baba Kama, "Magen Giborim" on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, "Shevet Achim" Responsum, and other books.
[Later in time the two brothers in law became opponents in view of the machine matzah polemic]. Served as Av-Beit-Din of Lvov as of 1857. Wrote many books the most noted of which were his Responsum books – "Shoel Umeshiv". The document is in German.
[5] pages, 34 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks. Tears to borders.