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Certificate authorizing R. Isaac Calamaro to solicit and collect funds on behalf of the Jerusalem community. The document is signed by:
R. Isaac b. Joseph Hezekiah Covo, called Morenu (1770–1854). In 1805 he went to Turkey as an emissary of Jerusalem. In his old age he returned to Erez Israel and in 1848 was appointed hakham bashi in Jerusalem. In 1854, at the age of 83, he set out as an emissary of Jerusalem to Egypt and died in Alexandria. On an earlier mission he visited Germany. His writings have remained in manuscript. A brochure by him, entitled Degel Mahaneh on the Mahaneh Ephraim of R. Ephraim Navon, was published in the Ateret Zahav (vol. 2, Jerusalem, 1898) of R. Isaac Badhav.
R. Hayyim Nissim b. Isaac Abulafia (1775–1861), rabbi and communal worker, known also, from the initial letters of his name, as “Hana.” Born in Tiberius, he succeeded his father as the head of the Jews of Tiberius. He was for a short time rabbi of Damascus. After the defeat of the Egyptian commander Ibrahim Pasha by the Turks (1840), when some of the Arab sheikhs began to seize control of the villages and towns abandoned by the Egyptians and oppressed and maltreated their Jewish inhabitants, Abulafia asked the commander of the Turkish forces in Sidon (Saida) and Tripoli to take action to stop these acts. The latter immediately had instructions dispatched to the governor of Safed forbidding persecution of the Jews. Toward the end of his life Abulafia moved to Jerusalem and, in 1854, he was elected rishon le-Zion succeeding R. Isaac Covo. His writings have remained in manuscript, except for individual responsa published in the works of his contemporaries.
R. Hayyim Samuel ha-Levi, rabbi in Jerusalem, his approbation appears in many period Jerusalem imprints. In 1855 he left as shadar to Janina and remained there as he was appointed rabbi.
R. David Cariov - only known from this document.
R. Jedidiah b. Solomon Moses Suzin (d. 1874), rabbi in Jerusalem, his approbation and signature appears in many early to mid 19th century Jerusalem imprints and documents. In 1807 he was appointed the Rosh ha-Yeshiva of Keneset Israel, the yeshiva founded by R. Hayyim ibn Attar. |