رسالة: Yevr.-Arab. II 1440

الوصف

Letter addressed to Moshe Kohen. Opens with long poetic Hebrew introduction, then transitions to Judaeo-Arrabic. The sender is reporting on the family's hardships this year. They are in distress over the daughter of R. Pinḥas and have spent nearly 100 גרש on her. It seems that the sender had a male newborn who died. When the wife of R. Avraham Qudsī came on Friday, the guard of the neighborhood brought a miscarried fetus (walad siqṭ) and left it in the road in front of the house of the addressee's sister Ḥana (blood libel??). Then, someone (al-Qudsī?) and R. Shemuel were imprisoned and the house of the sister was ransacked, and she and Ibrāhīm were left without anything. And there is no news either about the barley crop or about Jerusalem. The addressee's brother-in-law Shelomo Rofe has come. Needs further examination.