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Auction 77

Exciting Discovery about the Beit Midrash of the Bat Ayin in His Lifetime! Shtar Kinyan Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Heller Av Beit Din of Safed - about the Building of the Chassidim Synagogue (Avritch) - Safed, 1835

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Shtar Kinyan (Deed) between Rabbi Eliezer Shatz of the Prushim Community and six members of the committee for building the Chassidim synagogue – headed by the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Heller Shochet and Bodek (!), the future Av Beit Din of Safed – Safed, 1835 in the lieftime of the Admor the author of the Bat Ayin. 

The above Rabbi Eliezer Shatz lived next door to the Chassidim Synagogue (Avritch). The deed details the agreements reached pertaining to footholed, opening windows all other matters of Meitzaranut between him and the members of the committee for building the synagogue. 

Exciting discovery! Famed is the story about the miracle that occurred in the Avritch synagogue of the Admor the Bat Ayin during the earthquake in 1837. We also know that the Admor immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1831; until now, however, when the synagogue was built was unknown. 

This is an exciting discovery in the form of a document hand-signed by his disciple, the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Heller, about the building of his Beit Midrash. The document was written in signed in 1835, two years before the earthquake that destroyed Safed! Thus, we now know that the miraculous synagogue of the Bat Ayin was built in 1835!

An addiitonal interesting detail: Rabbi Shmuel Heller is titled in the deed "Shochet and Bodek". Indeed, Rabbi Shmuel earned his living as a Shochet until he hurt his hand during the earthquake of 1837 and coukd not work anymore. Consequently, he accepted a rabbinic position and after the passing of his Rav, the Bat Ayin, in 1841, he was appointed Av Beit Din and leader of the Jewish community of Safed. 

Enclosed is a copying of the above deed which was done many years later, in 1840. 

22X32 cm. 

Stains and wear. Fair condition. 

The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Heller (1786-1884), the Rav of Safed and a leader of the Ashkenazic community there for more than 40 years. He was the great-grandson of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller, author of the Tosfot Yom Tov. His grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Peretz was a Chassid of the Chozeh of Lublin, and took his grandson, Rabbi Shmuel, to him, meriting great Giluyim in his presence. Rabbeinu recalled that he received his Rav’s blessing over a hundred times!!! Immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and settled in Safed, where he became close to the Admor Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch, the Bat Ayin, whom he succeeded as Rav after his passing. He was considered a proficient healer using the flora of the country. He succeeded in rehabilitating Safed after its destruction by an earthquake. His grandson was the Admor of Toldot Aharon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kahan.