Letter of the Badatz in the City of Mogilev – 1868

Letter of the Badatz regarding an estate, signed by the Rabbi of the city Rabbi Meir Berlin and by the dayanim Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Rivlin and Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Kahane. Mogilev, Shevat 1868.
A shtar of compromise regarding the estate of a Jew of Mogilev whose father ascended to Jerusalem and after his death his assets were placed with a trusted third party, Rabbi Meir Auerbach.
Signed by Rabbi Meir Berlin – (c. 1796-1869). Brother of Rabbi Ya'akov Berlin of Mir, father of the Netziv of Volozhin. A prominent leader of his generation, he wrote approbations for many books. For 40 years he served as Rabbi of Mogilev.
Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Rivlin (1801-1884), a leading Lithuanian rabbi of his times. Son of the renowned Torah scholar of Shklow Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin, author of Divrei Shlomo who died that same year (the 14th of Sivan 1827), (therefore his son signs this document with the initials of Hareni Kaparat Mishkavo after his father’s name).
the third signature is by Rabbi “Moshe Yitzchak ben Rabbi Ya’akov Kahane” – a veteran dayan and posek of Mogilev, who served there until the 1880s.
Leaf 22.5 cm. Fair condition, wear with minor damages to leaf folds.