Auction 47
Lot 137:
Letter in pretty calligraphy, with Rashi and Stam script. From the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Ferrara (see below), Shvat 1902, Jerusalem. Addressed to the naggid Yitzhak Zvi.
He expresses his thanks for the donation he received via Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonenfeld, and he is effusive in his blessings: “And soon to give blessing and prayers, to Hashem, that he may lengthen his days, to him and all those with him, may everything happen in good and pleasantness, with enjoyment, for sons and grandsons, tzaddikim and rich, thanks to the merit held by good people, working hard in Torah…”. He signs: “Servant of God, Moshe Ferrara.”
14x22cm. Written on graph paper. Filing holes, light stains, overall good condition.
Rabbi Yitzhak Moshe Ferrara (died 1917) was the son and student of the kabbalist Rabbi Aharon Refael Chaim Moshe Ferrara. He was a sage of the Beit El yeshiva in Jerusalem, a darshan at the Baalei Batim yeshiva in the Old City, and he wrote amulets. He moved to Jerusalem with his father as a child from Salonika, around 1848. He wrote works of mussar in Ladino and “Me’il Kodesh and Bigdei Yesha” on the Etz Chaim and Shaar Kavanot.
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