Early and important Emissary Letter for Ashkenazi and Sephardic Kollel's in Eretz Israel - signed by Rabbi Shmuel ...

Early and important Emissary Letter for Ashkenazi and Sephardic Kollel's in Eretz Israel - signed by Rabbi Shmuel Salant and the great rabbis

"To our dear brothers, beloved and honest, in all the countries of America, may you be well!" - an early and important emissary letter for the collection of funds in America for the benefit of Ashkenazim and Sephardim in the four holy cities - Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias. After people fraudulently collected money and presented themselves as Emissaries from the holy land in America, this letter was sent to strengthen the hands of emissary Rabbi Neta Natkin as the sole messenger of the Gedolei HaDor. The signatories are headed by the great Rabbi and leader of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant, and the signatures of the Sephardic Gaonim (right) and Ashkenaz Gaonim (left) in Eretz Israel. Yerushalem, 1878. Handsome writing, and the signatures of the Gaonim.

This Emissary Letter was written after it was agreed to appoint emissary Rabbi Neta Natkin, son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, as the sole and exclusive representative of the Ashkenazi Kollel, as well as for the Sephardic Kollel in the Holy Land, and the sole authority to collect money in America on behalf of the Kollels of the Holy Land with the consent of all the great rabbis, headed by the leader of the community, Rabbi Shmuel Salant. In 1878 it became known to the greatest rabbis in the Eretz Israel that there were some fraudsters in America who presented themselves as emissaries of the rabbis in Eretz Israel and collected money on behalf of the poor of the land and in fact took the alms for themselves, and this led to the fact that when this became known to the benefactors of America, they stopped supporting the Jews of Eretz Israel. This emissary letter was intended to strengthen the first validity given to Rabbi Neta Natkin as sole emissary, and to reawaken donations from American Jews to the Kollels in Eretz Israel after the damage caused by these fraudsters.

"And now we have learned that in the state of America there are impostors who pretend to be emissaries from Eretz Israel and take money from charity boxes and donations. And they cause losses to the poor of the Holy Land, as well as to the widows and orphans, for whom the money was raised, and after this it has become known, that the donors withdraw their support, and the name of G-d is desecrated. And the poor of the Holy Land are doubly affected. Therefore, we have returned to renew this advertisement to inform all our dear brothers who, thank G-d, that the money that comes into our hands from all the countries of America... is divided into all Sephardic and Western Kollel's and all Ashkenazim Prushim and Hasidim from all over the Land of Russia and Poland Austria Hungary Germany... everything according to the contract." and continue to strengthen the hands of the faithful emissary Rabbi Neta Natkin, "that no other emissary except him so that you will not be failed by people who are not trustworthy...".

[1] Leaf. 21x27 cm. Reinforced with adhesive glue on the back. Tears in the margins. Good Condition.