Letter: ENA 2808.17

Letter ENA 2808.17

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Shelfmark
ENA 2808.17
Primary Language
Judaeo-Arabic

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Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer, Dā'ūd of Banhā, who is chronically in arrears for the capitation tax (ʿalayhi jawālī muzmina). Rabbenu Menaḥem has already helped him by writing a recommendation for him to the Nagid Avraham. At the end of this letter, Shelomo asks for copies of certain books from the Mishneh Torah. Verso: Shelomo continues, now writing on his own behalf. He asks his father to try to make sure that Shelomo is not sent to a place that is far away, because Shelomo is in a terrible state of isolation and ghurba and he could die any day, and then his father would regret having let him be sent away. ASE.

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Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 2808, fol. 17; ENA 2808, f. 17
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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ENA 2808.17 1

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ENA 2808.17 2

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 2808.17. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6708/, accessed November 23, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/6708/