Deeds of Sale of Apartments in Safed [2]. Safed, 1881, Important Rabbinic Signatures

Deeds of Sale of Apartments in Safed [2]. Safed, 1881, Important Rabbinic Signatures

Pair of deeds of sale of houses between the partners Rabbi Yaakov of Kalish, Rabbi Yeshaya Yuda and Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai, and the old man Rabbi Leib Yaakov of Drohobycz. Safed, 1881.

Specifications: [2] leaves, paper. 20x29 cm.

* Sale of a building with a domed roof situated in a large courtyard by the partners to the purchaser Rabbi Leib Yaakov of Drohobycz. Among the rabbis of Safed who signed the document are Rabbi Rafael Zilberman Av Beit Din of Safed, Rabbi Moshe of Rudnik, and Rabbi Yosef Aryeh HaCohen. With the stamp of the Ashkenazi Beit Din in the holy city of Safed.

* The partners' undertaking to provide the buyer with a new apartment, and determining what will be given to him if the apartment should not be transferred.

Rabbi Yaakov of Kalish son of Rabbi Mordechai Aryeh Yehuda [Lorberbaum]. Grandson of the gaon of Lissa. Mentioned in Yichus HaGedolim and Chiddushei HaRadad.

Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Elbaum son of Rabbi Yisrael of Lizhensk, brother of Rabbi Shimon of Jaraslow.

Rabbi Moshe of Rudnik, a member of Rabbi Shmuel Heller's Beit Din in Safed.

Rabbi Yosef Aryeh HaCohen, Rabbi of Moineşti in Romania, immigrated to Israel in 1864 and settled in Safed, where he became a dayan. Beginning in 1882 he was Av Beit Din of the Rosh Pina colony.

Condition: Moderate-fine. Stains and tears.