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Newly revised Yiddish constitution of the Seliba-Zolynia Sick Benevolent Society, organized in 1920. Its purpose, according to this constitution, exists to aid its members in good standing, in cases of distress, sickness and death. The title page is followed by the names of the members of the constitution committee, of which the chairman is Joe Halperin. There is a table of contents, which includes the name and purpose, meetings, business transactions, nominations and elections, officers and their duties, proposed candidates, duties of members, sick benefit, distress benefit, death benefit which includes reserved graves, consumption benefits including chronic diseases, suspension night, resigned and reinstated members, rules and regulations, concluding with loan relief fund. Within the text each of these articles is detailed in numbered paragraphs. The first paragraph of the first article states that the organizations name can never be changed.
The group carries the name of two distant towns. Selbia is a part of Minsk while Zolynia was in Galicia. The Zolynia Jewish community was organized out of the Lancut community in the second half of the eighteenth-century. Zolynia was the home to a number of rabbis related to famous hasidic rabbinic dynasties. From about 1848 to about 1860, Zolynia was the home of R. Yosef-Moshe Teicher, a famous Torah scholar.
By 1880, R. Avraham Yosef Igra settled in the town with some of his followers. He was the son-in-law of R. Mordechai of the Nadvorna dynasty (many leading hasidic rabbis assisted sons and sons-in-law to settle in other communities, extending their influence). A well-known tzaddik or holy man, R. Avraham Yosef was known to "fast from one Sabbath to the next," according to rabbinic records, and for his philanthropy toward the poor. Hundreds of his hasidic followers visited the "Rebbe of Zholin," and some settled in the town. After a few years he and many his followers moved to Kishinev (he died in Cracow in 1918).
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