Written and Signed in my Presence - Important Halachic Letter Handwritten by Leading 18th-Century Italian Sages

Written and Signed in my Presence - Important Halachic Letter Handwritten by Leading 18th-Century Italian Sages

Important, beautiful and lengthy halachic document [over 400 words]. Letter permitting appointing a messenger to deliver a get, signed by leading 18th-century Italian rabbis. Livorno, 13 Kislev, 1789.

Ma'aseh beit din carried out by leading Italian sages of their generation, a rare shaliach oseh shaliach contract - a messenger to deliver a get appointed by the Venice beit din appointing an additional messenger at the Livorno beit din to deliver the get to the wife and transfer it at the beit din in Torino.

Dayanim who signed on the shtar are as follows:

• The gaon and Kabbalist Rabbi Ya'akov Nunes-Vais, av beit din of Livorno, the Chid"a's successor and one of his primary disciples. The letter is apparently all in his penmanship.
• His teacher, Rabbi David Malach, one of Livorno's scholars and rabbis, close associate of the Chid"a and of the Zera Emet.
• The gaon Rabbi Ya'akov b"r Moshe Baruch, a dayan in Livorno and author of the renowned work Shivchei Yerushalayim (Livorno, 1785).

Signatures from Torino dayanim appear in the margins, confirming delivery of the get:

• The gaon Rabbi Yeshayah Chizkiyah Shlomo Michael Yonah, av beit din of Torino, one of the leading geonim of Italy and close friend of the Chid"a's. The entire series of lines of the kiyum are apparently in his hand.
• The gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Tziyon Segri, av beit din of Casali. [A letter from him appears in this catalog.]
• The gaon Rabbi Avraham of Senigallia, a sage and dayan in Florence.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of all the above signatories.

[1] double leaf, 19.5x25.5 cm each. High-quality greenish paper. Judeo-Italian script.

Very fine condition.