Auction 27
Lot 171:
Single page with, on one side, a Ladino letter written by hand and signed by Rabbi Aharon Haim Ferara (died 1939, Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shadar of Kollels in Turkey, died while on a mission to Na’amon [Alexandria – Egypt] where he is buried), addressed to the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe Ferara and to Rabbi David Pizanti. The letter is apparently written in Ladino and deals with estate and will matters, written in the month of Sivan 1912 sent from the city of Kutais in Grozia. On the other side of the paper is a "a wonderful segula for everything and even for the sick … Yes, he wrote … the commonplace … as Rabbi Sasson Ben Moshe … Persiado [the ‘Shemen Sasson’]", written entirely in a neat handwriting by the Kabbalist Rabbi Itzhak Moshe Ferara. On the page, Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe writes the order to do and the prayer order for this virtue. [1] page. 18×10.5 cm. Torn in two, with another rip in the corner with the signature of Rabbi Aharon Haim Ferara. Good general condition. Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe Ferara (died 1917), son of Rabbi Aharon Raphael Chaim Moshe Ferara. Rabbi of the Beit El Yeshiva in Jerusalem, darshan at the Ba’ali Batim Yeshiva, and author of amulets. He authored Ladino mussar books and "Holy Coat and Yesha Clothes".
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