رسالة: T-S 8J13.23
رسالة T-S 8J13.23What's in the PGP
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الوصف
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, recommending a man who is “poor but from a good family.” The community of Fustat is asked to help by taking up a collection in the synagogue, referred to as a ‘pesiqa.’ (Mark Cohen, Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, 197) EMS.
العلامات
صورة
النصوص المفرّغة
الترجمة
Editor: Goitein, S. D.
Translator: Cohen, Mark R. (in English)
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S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85).
- [Arabic basmala]
- אלגמאעה אלכרימה אלמקימין במצר יברכם צורם
- ויהיה בעזרם יוצרם אנס יעלמו באן אלואצל
- אלי ענדכם אלשיך ר יום טוב והו עני ומבני טובים
- ואהל ביתה צעיפין פגעל אחסאן אלגמאעה
- ברוכים יהיו אנהם יגבו לה שי פי בתי כנסיות
- יתסעד בה עלי וקתה ולכם ה ה ו קה
- פאלחק תע יגעלכם מן הנותנים ולא מן
- הנותנים (!) ויעמר כם ויכתר ארזקכם
- ויברך אתכם אנשים ונשים טף ובחורים
- יקים עליכם קרא דכתי ייי אלי אבותיכם
- יוסיף עליכם ככם אלף פעמים וג' ושלום
Mark R. Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2005).
- In the name of the Compassionate
- The noble community in Fustat, may their Rock bless them and
- their Creator help them, a(men) n(esah) s(ela), is hereby informed that the person just arriving in
- your midst, the elder R. Yom Tov, is a poor man from a good family,
- and the members of his household are poverty stricken (Arabic: “weak”). Through the beneficence of the community,
- may you be bl[ess]ed, I h[o]pe you will collect something for him in the synagogues
- to help him in his hour of need. It will [b]e to your merit as an act of righteousness (charity) (cf. Deuteronomy 24:13).
- May God the ex(alted) make you “givers rather
- than givers” [sic], [m]ake [yo]ur habitations prosper, increase your sustenance,
- [b]less you, men, women, children and young men.
- May he fulfill through you the verse “May the Lord, the G(od) of your fathers,
- increase your numbers a thousandfold,” etc. (Deuteronomy 1:11). And peac[e].
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