Large Collection - Dozens of Letters from Rabbi Yosef Porat and Other Documents Related to him.

Large Collection - Dozens of Letters from Rabbi Yosef Porat and Other Documents Related to him.

1. Collection of letters/receipts for donations Rabbi Porat collected for the city's poor, after the fall of the Jewish quarter. Lists of those taken as captives to Jordan. These letters contain extensive information about the depressed state of the city. Name list of widowers / widows / orphans, those who "fled" the city and more. Among the letters are shocking descriptions of the city's poor spiritual and material state. For example: The occasional sounds of shells piercing the air, paralyzed public institutions, children wandering the streets unclothed, distinguished families proud of obtaining sardines to put on their tables in honor of Shabbat. Very impressive list, including extensive material for scholars of the fall of the Jewish Quarter.

2. Torah correspondence between Rabbi Tukachinsky and Rabbi Porat.

3. Receipts for charitable institutions in the United States, and for individual donors.

4. Lot of letters from Rabbi Yisrael Porat. Full of content about what is happening in Jerusalem. Close contact with Rabbi Pinchas Epstein, Ra'ava"d of the Edah HaChareidit.

6. File of the Jaffa Municipal Committee. Extremely important lot that reveals the connection between the Jaffa community and rabbis and activists of the Jerusalem Yishuv. The background to these matters is the divide within the Edah upon the establishment of the Chassidic community led by Rabbi Shneur Slonim.

Rabbi Yisrael Porat was born in Jerusalem in 1886. His father and grandfather were associated with R' Yehoshua Leib Diskin. In his youth, he studied at Etz Chaim, and after his wedding, at the Ohel Moshe yeshivah. Upon the arrival of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook (1904), he clung to him and his Torah, and left for Jaffa to study with him. On the eve of WWI, Jerusalem rabbis authorized him to be their spokesman and to advocate with the Ottoman government. Inter alia, he devoted himself to the receipt of an exemption from the military draft for yeshivah students. Following the internal rift in the Edah Chareidit, R' Yisrael could not tolerate the polarization between the brothers, so he parted from Jerusalem and moved to the United States, where he served as rabbi of Cleveland.

Total of [9] letters handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yisrael Porat, and another over [15] leaves, some signed by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky. Overall fine condition. Several original envelopes included.