ثيقة شرعيّة: T-S 16.187

الوصف

Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority of Avraham Maimonides (referred to as ‘Raʾīs’). After his father’s death, the young Avraham faced resistance from many quarters and people rejecting his reshut avoided attending synagogue services and set up private assemblies. As the community was in danger of fragmenting, a 30-year moratorium was enacted to abolish the custom of reshut and prohibit—under pain of excommunication—the setting up of a private place of prayer. At least seven men signed at the bottom and in the right margin: Moshe b. Mordekhay ha-Kohen, Sar Shalom b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, Shemuel b. Yefet b. […], [...] b. Shemuel ha-Dayyan; Shemuel b. Avraham, Yefet b. Efrayim, and Yosef b. Adoniyya. Reuse: the document was cut into three equal-size pieces and used to write poetry celebrating the birth of a son. The scribe’s hand is rather shaky. (Information from CUDL.)