Handwritten letter containing a request to support the settlements of the Vilna Gaon's disciples in Safed and Jerusalem. Signed by the Vilna Gaon's disciple R. Yisrael of Shklow and by other leading disciples. Jerusalem and Safed, Kislev 1830. Written as a personal request given to the emissary R. Zvi Hirsh son of R. Yehuda, with a blank space for filling the name of the donor by the emissary. Signatures of "Chaim Cohen former Rabbi of Pinsk and its region" [held a 20-year tenure in the Pinsk rabbinate, accepted also by the Chassidic population, ascended to Safed in 1826 and served in its rabbinate until his death in 1831]; "Yisrael, author of the book Taklin Chadetin from Safed" [R. Yisrael of Shklow disciple of the Vilna Gaon]; "Natan Neta son of …R. Mendel of Jerusalem" [called R. Neta HaGadol, a leader of the first aliya of the Vilna Gaon's disciples in 1809, his father, R. Mendel of Shklow immigrated one year previously and prepared the way for the 1809 aliya. He died in Tishrei 1847]; "Natan Neta son of … R. Sa'adya of Jerusalem" [tsaddik and Chassid, Natan Neta merited to serve the Vilna Gaon and recited mishnayot by heart before him. His father, R. Sa'adya was the head of the Gaon's disciples who ascended to Jerusalem. Died in 1849]; "Aryeh Leib son of R. Yosef Leon" [a head of the Ashkenazi settlement in Safed]; "Aryeh son of R. Yerachmiel trustee of the Jerusalem Kollel" [R. Aryeh Leib son of R. Yerachmiel of K?dainiai (1800-1877), trustee of the Kollel HaPerushim in Jerusalem and a founder of the Hurva Synagogue]; "Shlomo Zalman son of R. Z. Wolf HaCohen" [Eretz Israel emissary, father-in-law of R. Ya'akov Sapir, died in Calcutta, India in 1947]. [1] leaf, 24 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Light stains and glue marks to margins.

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