Appeal to the Turkish Sultan to stop the looting of the Jews - Signature of Rabbi Shmuel Heller and the great ...

Appeal to the Turkish Sultan to stop the looting of the Jews - Signature of Rabbi Shmuel Heller and the great rabbis of Safed

A historical letter to the Turkish Sultan asking for help to stop the robberies of the Ottoman 'government ministers' in the Jewish fields in the area of Tiberias and Safed, handsome writing, and signing by the great rabbis of Safed - headed by Rabbi Shmuel Ha'alir. Safed, Tammuz 1880.

In a letter in which the great rabbis of Safed address the head of the Constantinople, Rabbi Moshe Halevi, requesting that he contact the Sultan regarding the robberies that are taking place in the Jewish gardens in Kfar Hitin, where the Ottomans come and forcibly take the fruits of the Jews' land work. In their letter, the geniuses state that these gardens were founded by Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Wax, Av Beit Din of Kalish, with the help of charity money, and with the help of Moshe Montefiore, and that the lands were bought from their owners with full money, and now that the gardens The decrees "as desert robbers", and ask him to act to remove the yoke of the cruel approachers.

Rabbi Shmuel Ha'alir [1803-1884]. Rabbi and great leader of the Ashkenazi community in Safed for over forty years. A descendant of Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipman Heller, author of the "Tosfot Yom Tov". Rabbi Shmuel Heller received the leadership of the Ashkenazi community in Safed when the city was battered and depleted due to natural disasters and political and military shocks, which occurred during the 1930s, in a complex organizational reality, Rabbi Heller was required to engage in many intertwined systems. He was able to quickly integrate into the Land of Israel, learn Hebrew at its core, learn Arabic and have a fruitful dialogue with the residents of Safed and its environs, most of whom were Arabs, and at the same time manage all the Jewish affairs of the city. From his writings: Derech Nesher, Kvod Melachim - Regarding the burning of clothes at the celebration of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Jerusalem 1874. Medicines and Virtues, Jerusalem 1907.

[1] leaf. 40x24 cm. Filing holes at the top of the page. Very good condition.