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A fund-raising appeal for the Holy Cabbalah College "Rehoboth Hanahar" at Jerusalem University printed in Hebrew, Spanish and Judeo-Spanish. The Yeshiva was founded in1896 ...to study the Talmud and Poskim [Halakic decisions] and secrets of the Torah and prayer with Kavanah, according to the AriZ"l....
The fund-raising appeal has the signatures of R. Haim Saul Cohen Dwek, R. Shalom Yosef Alshich HaLevi, R. Meir Ovadiah HaKohen Arzi , R. Nissim Nahum and R. Yaakov Haim Sofer.
The other side of this request for support contains "certificates of great Rabbis who have visited our Yeshiva" , certification from R. Menahem Menchin Halperin, and a section called Rights of Members in Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish and Spanish.
Rehovot ha-Nahar was founded in the Yissacharoff synagogue of the Bukharian quarter of Jerusalem's “new city.” The founder was R. Nissim Nahum of Tripoli, with the assistance of R. Hayyim Shaul
Dweck of Aleppo.This yeshivah was devoted to the kavvanot practice and operated around the clock. The daily schedule began
with nightly immersion in the ritual bath (mikvah), the performance of the midnight vigil (Tiqqun Hazot) and the full recitation of prayers with Shar’abi’s version of the kavvanot.This institution served as a center for the Aleppo scholars and came to include other newcomers to Jerusalem from Yemen and the west, as well as a significant contingent of Ashkenazim. The leaders of “the ascetic Ashkenazim” of Jerusalem, as well as the Hasidic rabbinical court, gave their approbation to R. Hayyim Shaul Dweck. |
