Manuscript, Bakashot and Selichot, Hatarat Nedarim and Tashlich. [India / Iraq / Iran? The 19th century].
At the end of Selichot (Leaf 42/b) is an interesting description of the ceremony of Hatarat Nedarim on Erev Yom Kippur, titled "The custom of the Sephardic community, in the synagogue in the city of …" (We have not been able to identify the city): "On Erev Yom Kippur after Shacharit, the congregation gathers in the synagogue and from among the gathering three dayanim are chosen. One person stands before the dayanim and confesses and regrets his sins and says: I hereby admit and confess before you, expert dayanim, any vow… and then one of the holy dayanim distances himself four cubits and removes his shoes and sits on the ground like a mourner and like a banned person for a short while. Afterward, the dayanim call him with these words: You are our brother, you are our brother, you are our brother, since you have accepted the judgement. And he immediately rises from the ground and stands before the dayanim in prayer and prays with unabated tears…" This custom is mentioned in the book Shnei Luchot HaBrit (227, 1), as the custom in Eretz Israel.
The first and last leaves have family inscriptions of deaths and births from 1836-1886.
[2], 42, [9] leaves. 15 cm. Most of the notebook has bluish paper. Good-fair condition, wear and spotting, detached leaves. Ornamented binding, damaged and worn.

Handwritten leaf – calendar for 1881. Cochin (India), [1880].
Wall calendar. Partially missing. At the top of the leaf is a list of dates including dates distinctive for Indian Jews: "373 to Portugal coming to Cochin", "366 to the Shingili expulsion", "to the coming of Olandia to Cochin", "to the coming of the English to Cochin" "to the building of the synagogue", etc.
60 cm. Fair-poor condition. Tears with lack and damage to text [restored with paper]. Stains, moisture marks and wear.

* Book of Regulations of the She'erit Israel General School and Yeshiva: Established by the Georgian community natives of Kavkaz from the city of Achalziche and its province". Jerusalem, [1910]. Hebrew, Yiddish and German.
Printed pamphlet, with the association's regulations and letters by the community's rabbis and Jerusalem rabbis (Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Kook, the Badatz of the Chassidim in Jerusalem, etc.).
12, IV pages, 14 cm. Fair condition, spotting, wear and tears.
* Receipt book [empty] of "Kupat Chana", "for the Kollel of our brethren the Georgians in Jerusalem". [Jerusalem, c. 1890].
Notebook with more than 200 receipts never used. 20X15 cm. Good-fair condition. Spotting and wear.
Georgian Jews, who were dubbed by the Ottoman Turks "Gurgim" moved to Eretz Israel in the first half of the 19th century, settled in Jerusalem, established a synagogue and a Yeshiva, led community lives and also established a special Kollel to contribute to the support of the community's poor.

A collection of photos originating in Georgia. * Photographs of rabbis (among them: Georgian rabbis, a photo of Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer of Moscow on a visit to Georgia, etc.). * Photographed postcards and greeting cards (photocopied, a technique use by Jews under Soviet rule who were not allowed to own a Hebrew printing press): two New Year cards, a wedding invitation (photo of an illustration with Georgian inscriptions and a picture of the couple), portrait of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and a portrait of the Ba'al Shem Tov.
11 photos. Varied size and condition.

Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, with Ba'er Hetev and Chidushei Dinim. Amsterdam, [1764. Printed by the sons of Shlomo Proops].
A booklet of leaves for writing novellae is attached to the beginning of the book containing novellae written by two different authors. Most of the leaves are written by Rabbi Avraham the Second, who signed Avraham Pinto many times throughout his novellae (Avraham Pinto HaKatan appears twice) and in his writings he mentions things in the name of his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Pinto (the senior) and their esteemed grandfather the Rif [Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto]. Three pages appear to be written in an earlier handwriting and are signed in one place "Avraham".
Throughout the book are more than one hundred long glosses in Oriental handwriting. Most written by Rabbi Avraham the senior, [some with the signature "Avraham"]. Some are written by Rabbi Avraham Pinto "HaKatan" (the junior). Some glosses are in a third handwriting, one (on leaf 74/a) is signed by Rabbi "Elazar Ebn L'Chazan". (In one gloss which looks like the handwriting of Rabbi Elazar Chazan, he mentions things in the name of his father-in-law: "… Rabbi Shlomo Asabag ruled"). Several glosses are written in another handwriting, one is signed "Ya'akov".
Signature of Rabbi "Masud Pinto" who bought the book from his brother Rabbi Ya'akov. At the beginning of the book is an ownership inscription of "The great Chacham Rabbi Moshe Pinto".
Rabbi Avraham Pinto the senior (died on Succot 1803), son of the Mekubal Rabbi Ya'akov Pinto the First [a member of a society of Mekubalim, authors of the series of holy books Mikdash Melech]. Served in the rabbinate of the city of Marrakesh together with Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi Ya'akov Chazan and Rabbi David Tzabach [who succeeded him in the city rabbinate until 1858]. Rabbi David Tzabach and Rabbi Elazar Chazan were close disciples of Rabbi Shlomo Asabag who died in 1830.
His son Rabbi Moshe Pinto is apparently the father of Rabbi Ya'akov and Rabbi Masud Pinto who signed the book.
This is an important manuscript – never printed, written by prominent rabbis of the city of Marrakesh in Morocco in the 18th/19th century all renowned for their great holiness and scholarship in revealed and hidden Torah.
Missing copy: [1], 176 leaves (originally: [2], 405, [3] leaves). + booklet of 14 leaves, with approximately 11 pages including handwritten Torah novellae. Approximately 19.5 cm. Wide margins, fair condition, worn from usage, detached leaves and some spotting. Ancient and elaborate leather binding, worn and torn.