Auction 75
Lot 31:
Two Shetarot Eurusin (engagement documents) of father and son of the Margolis family – with the in-laws Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria and Rabbi Shimshon Heiman, the son-in-law of Rabbi Mendeli Deyzher [Rabbi Menachem Mendel Sternberg].
– Shetar Eirusin of the bridegroom Rabbi Elazar Moshe Margolis of Tiberius – with the bride, the daughter of Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria, the father of the pedigreed Luri family and grandfather of the author of Avodat Panim – signed by the witnesses Rabbi Shaul of Zampko and Rabbi Yisrael Mendel Shemesh – Safed, 1873.
Double leaf.
20X29/5 cm.
Stains. Good condition.
– Shetar Eirusin of the bridegroom Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon Margolis, the above Rabbi Elazar Moshe’s son – "העומד מצד עצמו"!!! (representing himself) – with the daughter of the Gaon Rabbi Shimshon Heiman, the son-in-law of Rabbi Mendele Deyzher – signed by Rabbi Aharon Zelig ben Menachem and Rabbi Shmuel Moshe ben Rabbi Menachem Elimelech – Deyzh, ca. 1917.
This Shetar has a special story: it was written in the midst of World War I and the bridegroom represented himself since he was forced to escape his father’s house in Safed for fear of being recruited into the Turkish army. Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon reached Deyzh, where the Tzaddik Rabbi Shimshon Heiman took him as his daughter’s bridegroom. The document indicates it was writtten in times of trouble; it is much shorter than other similar documents and does not include the commitments of the bridegroom’s father…
17X23 cm.
Tears and wear. Fair condition.
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