Emissary Letter by the Ashkenazi congregation leaders in Safed and Jerusalem - signed by Talmidey HaGr"a of Vilna ...

Emissary Letter by the Ashkenazi congregation leaders in Safed and Jerusalem - signed by Talmidey HaGr"a of Vilna led by Rabbi Israel Shklov.

"Test me on this if G-d does not open the chimneys of the sky without ceasing, in the simple sense of things". Emissary Letter from the Ashkenazi Prushim community in Safed and Jerusalem - Signed by the great students of the GR"A led by Rabbi Yisrael of Shklov. Wednesday 13th Kislev, [1831], Jerusalem and Safed . Writing of writer and autographs of the rabbis.

An important Emissary Letter written at difficult days for the kolel of the Ashkenazi community in Safed and Jerusalem, as described his situation: "The oppressed and pressed and pushed are suffering from debts, Which does not in any Kollel many debts as in our Kollel and in our country ... and all livelihoods are very low.". The writing was prepared by a writer with a blank space for filling in the donor's name, and the signatures of the heads of the Kollel, and it was aimed at donors who have never yet contributed to the fund: "Because his help is our overall help, which we have never received help from them in the Holy Land ...".

At the end of the letter are the signatures of the famous GRA students who immigrated to Eretz Israel after his passing ["the superiors and heads of yeshivot in the two holy communities of Jerusalem and Safed"] and laid the first foundation for the Jewish community in Eretz Israel, headed by Rabbi Israel MiShklov - one of the leaders of the aliyah of the GRA disciples Author of The Book "Peat HaShulchan". Came to the Vilna Gaon to study around 1796, together with his friend Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov. Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1810, and already in the late winter of that year, a few months after arriving in Eretz Israel, set out for Voloshin by himself to raise funds, There he received help and recommendation for his activities mainly from Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, in this travel he spent his time in Vilnius, Warsaw and Minsk (where he printed his book "Tkalin Hadatin" on the Jerusalem Talmud, Shkolim Tract), and eventually succeeded and donations were sent to Safed. In the summer of 1813 Returning to Eretz Yisrael and to Safed. Returning to Eretz Yisrael and Safed, she suffered great suffering, in the form of the disease that broke out there, and his wife passed away. When they arrived in Jerusalem with members of the community who fled from Safed, a plague also broke out and one by one his entire family perished. He concluded his activities for the Kollel establishment: "And with all my strength and mind and within, I gave my heart to obtain loans, to give to all our people, who did not have a house of settlement, and to sit in a village of Peki'in, where it was quiet ... And I was worried about saving lives...". On the 9th of Sivan, the 1839, he went to Tiberias, where he died and was buried. 

Also appear Signatures of Rabbi Haim Cohen [Rabbi of Pinsk and the Galilee], Rabbi Aryeh Leib Leon, Rabbi Natan Neta son of Rabbi Saadia, Rabbi Natan Neta son of the well-known genius Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, (Rabbi Neta "the Great", immigrated to Jerusalem in Aliyah The first of the GRA students in the year 1808, and led the community in Jerusalem), Rabbi Aryeh Ne'eman (Marcus) of Kedan (one of the founders of the "Horevah" synagogue), and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman son of Rabbi Wolf Cohen.

[1] leaf: 25x19 cm. Thick and high quality paper. Very good condition.