منحة في رسالة: T-S 8J13.23

S. D. Goitein's unpublished edition (1950–85).

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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