رسالة: T-S NS J399
رسالة T-S NS J399What's in the PGP
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الوصف
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. Headed with an elaborate Emet. Perhaps instructing Avraham ha-Zaqen to help the bearer of the letter who is a deserving man from a good family; he should receive charity without knowing who the giver is. On verso there is a note in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals concerning a qāʿa.
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Translator: Cohen, Mark R. (in English)
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Mark R. Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2005).
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- [Calligraphic Arabic heading]
- To Abraham the Elder of the Community, (may) G(od) b(e your succor) and provide as [your] successor
- a good son, living [and strong].
- Your slave brings to your noble knowledge [that the letter-bearer is]
- from a good family. He is deserving [...].
- He cannot face asking t[he community].
- He requests, therefore, that his matter [...s]o that he does not
- experience shame from anyone.
- As you know, the highest and noblest form of charity is credited
- to the one who bestows charity upon someone anonymously, rather
- than that he take. As Solomon the (king), p(eace be) u(pon him) said in the proverb: "A gift in secret
- [s]ub[dues] anger" (Proverbs 21:14). We prefer this kind of charity
- for the distresse(d) on these High Holidays.
- May God the ex(alted) give you from His full treasury,
- and may all who [open wid]e their hands in giving be blessed.
- "It will be to your merit as an act of righteousness (charity)," etc. (Deuteronomy 24:13).
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