The mother is requesting the Bet Din of Hamburg to review the deceased son's papers and last will to ascertain if she is not the intended recipient of her son's monies. She claims that the son was estranged form the father who remarried a "shrew" and was close only to her, his mother.

The document written in beautiful prose and script is signed by several members of the Miedzychod community. The final signatory is R. Aaron Kahane, the scribe and representative of the kahal. R. Aaron, little is known of him, was a student and disciple of R. Akiva Eger and is recorded several times in his responsa.