Letter from the Tiberias Sages Led by Rabbis of the Abulafiah Family Regarding Rabbi Yehudah Segri's Mission to ...

Letter from the Tiberias Sages Led by Rabbis of the Abulafiah Family Regarding Rabbi Yehudah Segri's Mission to Morocco. Tiberias, 1790

Letter from the Tiberias sages led by rabbis of the Abulafiah family regarding Rabbi Yehudah Segri's mission to Morocco. Tiberias, 1790.

Letter to Rabbi Shlomo Abotbul [Av Beit Din Safed] regarding Rabbi Yehudah Segri's mission, signed by leading sages of Tiberias led by the sages of the Abulafiah family, grandsons of Rabbi Chaim Abulafiah, who re-established the Jewish settlement there in 1740.

Rabbi Yitzchak Abulafiah - son of Rabbi Yissachar Abulafiah son of Rabbi Chaim Abulafiah, who re-established the Jewish settlement in Tiberias. He was one of the leading sages of Tiberias and appointed to the Safed and Tiberias communities by the minister Rabbi Chaim Farchi. Rabbi Yisrael of Shklov describes him as: 'Ruler and administrator of these two towns.' He passed away in 1825, and his tombstone is inscribed [Hebrew]: "Here lies the glory of his time, faithful shepherd of Israel, his name is great."

Rabbi Ya'akov Abulafiah - son of Rabbi Yissachar Abulafiah son of Rabbi Chaim Abulafiah, who re-established the Jewish settlement in Tiberias. He was one of the leading sages of Tiberias. He lived most of his life in Constantinople, and passed away in Tiberias in 1792.

Rabbi Michael Shabtai Rephael Abulafiah - son of Rabbi Yechezkel Abulafiah son of Rabbi Chaim Abulafiah, who re-established the Jewish settlement in Tiberias went on a mission as emissary of Tiberias to Turkey several times. He published Chiddushei HaMeiri - Yevamot (Salonika 1801) and his father-in-law's Simchat Olam. He passed away in Constantinople in 1807.

Rabbi Yehudah Birdugo - ascended with his father from North Africa to Tiberias. His signatures are found on emissarys' letters until 1805.

Rabbi Moshe Ashkenazi.

Rabbi Yonah Jian - a Tiberias sage signed on documents and emissarys' letters from 1790-1803.

Rabbi Aharon b"r Moshe.

Regarding the mission of Rabbi Yehudah Segri, grandson of Rabbi Avraham Segri of Kassel, refer to A. Ya'ari, Shluchei Eretz Yisrael pp. 634-635. Further details about these signatories can be found in Sefer Teveriah pp. 278 onward.

[1] size: 27x19 cm. Tiny individual holes, aging stains.