Letters Rabbi Shalom Alshich YEMENITE JERUSALEM Chief Rabbi 1930 PALESTINE LAND
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Letters Rabbi Shalom Alshich YEMENITE JERUSALEM Chief Rabbi 1930 PALESTINE LAND:
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DescriptionSeries of historic letters by R. Shalom ben Joseph ha-Levi Alsheikh, (1859–1944), chief rabbi of the Yemenite community of Jerusalem. The letters describe the trials and tribulations of immigrating to Erez Israel, from the cumbersome application process to the daily financial hardships of living in Jerusalem. The series, addressed to family members in Yemen, reveals much of the abuse the Yemenite community suffered under the regime. The rabbi recommends that only those lacking a decent income in Yemen attempt the process. Included is a typed biography of R. Alsheikh.
R. Alsheikh preached and taught at the Alsheikh Great Synagogue in Sanʾa. He left his hometown in 1888 and in early 1891 reached Jerusalem. There he first devoted himself to studying in various yeshivot. However, he became involved in the leadership of the community of Yemenite immigrants in Jerusalem, founding educational and charitable institutions for them. In 1893 R. Alsheikh was elected to the administrative committee of the Yemenite community; in 1895 he was one of the founders of the kabbalist yeshiva Rehovot ha-Nahar; and in 1908 he was chosen chief rabbi of the Yemenite community of Jerusalem. He left several works in manuscript form, including a kabbalistic commentary on the Torah, sermons, commentary on Yemenite liturgy, and various liturgical poems. In his unfinished Divrei ha-Yamim le-Adat ha-Teimanim bi-Yrushalayim ("Chronicles of the Yemenite Community in Jerusalem"), he describes the tremendous awakening of Sanʾa Jewry to the idea of immigration to Erez Israel and the beginning of the actual emigration in Ratzaby, in: Din ve-Ḥeshbon shel ha-Vaʿad ha-Kelali le-Adat ha-Teimanim (1946), 19–29; A. Yaari, Masot Ereẓ Yisrael (1946), 640–50, 781–2; Tidhar, 1 (1947), 151; Yaari, Avraham, EJ
Letters Rabbi Shalom Alshich YEMENITE JERUSALEM Chief Rabbi 1930 PALESTINE LAND:
$99.00