Various letters and documents regarding matters of charity and chesed to the inhabitants of Jerusalem referred to Rabbi Shmuel Salant and to the Va'ad HaKlali, 1889-1915.
* Letter signed by Rabbi Natan Adler Av Beit Din of London, to Rabbi Shmuel Salant. London, 1898. * Letters signed by "Shmuel ben Asher", from the home of Baron Rothschild, London, 1889-1891. * Letter by Yosef Sabag Montefiore, [nephew of Moses Montefiore, head of the Sephardic community of London and manager of the charity funds and Montefiore's estates] in which he requests that the city's rabbis send him a list of 70 people which includes 10 widows who will be entitled to charity from the charity funds. London, 1902. * Signed receipt of Kollel WoÅ‚yÅ„ for money sent by Rabbi Avraham David Lavat Av Beit Din of Aleksandrovsk [great-grandfather of the Lubavitch Rebbe]. 1905. * Two letters of "tzetlach" for payment, by Jerusalem rabbis: Rabbi Yisrael Isser ben Rabbi M. HaLevi who signed the “cherem†on the schools] and who writes to pay for the expenses of “bathing in the sea†for an ill person. Rabbi “Aryeh Leib ben Rabbi E. Dayan [Rabbi Leib Dayan] who writes to pay the shamash of the Badatz for “wood for heating the Badatz residenceâ€. * Letter signed by Dayanim Rabbi Meir Israel and Rabbi Bezalel Yeshaya Bernstein, “Great Beit Din of the Ashkenazi communityâ€, payment for pasting notices “To pray for the peace of the kingdom†- for the success of the Turkish army during World War I, Jerusalem, 1915. * Various other letters.
10 items, Varied size and condition.