Leilão Bidspirit | Emissary Letter from 'Mearat HaMachpelah'

Emissary Letter from 'Mearat HaMachpelah' Hebron Sages to the Modena community [1763] - Emissary letter from the holy city of Hebron for emissaries R' Chaim Rachamim Baggio and Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'evi to the Modena community in Italy, 1763. With respect to a court case between a Jew and a gentile in Hebron - the payment was a sum of 25,000 reals, and aside from this, there is a feud between two Ishmaelite families in Hebron, constituting a danger to Jews there, and a huge sum is necessary to leave to avoid the danger. Signed on the letter: Hebron rabbis, with a chronogram [” ושמרו דרך ה' לעשות צדקה” ] working out to the year 1763. Names of the rabbinic signatories: Rabbi Aharon Alfandri [author of Yad Aharon   and Merkavat HaMishnah ], Rabbi Chaim Yeudah Gomitz Pato [relative of the Chid” a], Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen, Rabbi Chaim [Shlomo] Ze'evi, Rabbi Eli' ben Archa, Rabbi Pinchas Mordechai Baggio, the youth Avraham Gedaliah [the grandson]. [1] leaf paper. 33x22 cm. Very fine condition. Minimal aging stains.