قائمة/جدول: JRL SERIES B 1979

الوصف

Large list of names and sums of money (probably donations) dated Passover [Nisan 15-22] 5555 AM (April 1795 CE). The right column lists 43 full names and the left 47 full names. The first sixteen names portray the hierarchy of rabbinic communal leaders: R. Shabbetay ʿAdda, R. Nissīm Ḥayyīm Rafael De Segura, the deceased מהרח׳׳ל whose exact name is unclear (his widow contributes on his behalf), R. Yeḥezqel Ḥefeṣ, R. Shabbetay Skandarī, R. Ṣevī Ḥayyūn, R. Makhlūf Gīyān, R. Mordekhay Kohen, Avraham Kohen Ṣedaqa, R. Avraham Ṣanūʿa, R. Yosef Angel, R. Benyamin Karo, R. Yiṣḥaq Arūkh, R. David Yamānī, R. Benyamin Mugnāga[?], and ״the scribe" (הכותב). This list may reflect the rabbinic leadership of every Rabbanite congregation in Cairo during the mid-1790s. MCD.