Beautiful, rare and important letter of recommendation to come to the assistance of Rabbi Mordechai Luria of Tiberias for printing his sefer , Knesset Mordechai . Signed by the gaon Rabbi Avraham Tzvi HaLevi, av beit din of Tiberias, with additional signatures from other rabbis. [Land of Israel and Germany, c. 1880].
This document in fact took a number of trips – from the Land of Israel to Germany, and from Germany back to the Land of Israel. The names of the signatories on this letter who gave financial advances to the author for when the sefer would be published are as follows:.
Rabbi Avigdor Zelig Auerbach, av beit din of Halberstadt
Rabbi Dov Aryeh Ritter, av beit din of Rotterdam
Rabbi Asher Lemmel Marks, av beit din of Darmstadt
Rabbi Nachum Brill of Frankfurt am Main
Rabbi Aryeh Schwartz, av beit din of Karlsruhe
Rabbi Gavriel Winter, av beit din of Dresden
Rabbi David Shlomo Galatz
Rabbi Sinai Schiffer, rabbi of Kehillot Yere’im in Karlsruhe
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of the gaon Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Hirsch HaLevi Segal , Rabbi Sinai b”r Yekutiel Ze’ev Schiffer and Rabbi Aryeh Schwartz, av beit din of Karlsruhe .
The sefer Knesset Mordechai , subject of this letter, was published in 1886 in Jerusalem at Shmuel Zuckerman’s press. It is such a rare sefer that it does not appear in the Torah databases HebrewBooks and Otzar HaChochmah .
[1] leaf 22×28 cm.The body of the letter was written in beautiful scribal script with the rabbis’ signatures underneath.
Moderate-fine condition. Aging stains. Fold marks. Light tears in the folds with tiny blemishes in the text.