Letter: ENA NS 63.16

Letter ENA NS 63.16

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Input date

In PGP since 1986

Description

Lower, small fragment: Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen (aka Wahb b. Barakāt). Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Concerning the leadership of the community in Ashkelon in the time of David b. Daniel, the head of the Jews in Egypt. Describes an attempt to close the synagogue, probably with the help of the Muslim leadership, in order to prevent the Ashkelonian group, with their leader Avraham ha-Hazan, from praying there. Following the closer of the synagogue, the Ashkelonian group asked David b. Daniel to help them and send them a new leader. (Information from M. Cohen, Shalem, 3, pp.105–07.) VMR

ENA NS 63.16 1

1

Transcription

Mark Cohen, "The Jewish Community of Ascalon Between the Palestinian Gaonate and the Office of Head of the Jews in Egypt‎" (in Hebrew), Shalem‎ 3 (n.p.: Yad Izhak Ben Zvi / יד יצחק בן-צבי, 1981), 93-118.
  1. בשמך רחמנא
  2. שלום וישועה לברך [...
  3. תמיד וברחמים להו.[...
  4. והנבון העניו ושפל רוח [...
  5. אוריאן אשר שמעו [הולך בכל המדינות ...
  6. הז]קן הנכבד זקן הת[...
  7. (ההמשך קרוע)

Margins

  1. [אן ידכל אלי ס]ידנא אלנשיא ויערפה
  2. [...........אלב]ארי במא קד פעלה מע
  3. [............אנ]פאד מקדם אלי
  4. [אלגמאעה...........]מא יתכלו
  5. [ען....................]ל

Translation

ENA NS 63.16 2

2

verso

  1. و ه(ب بن بركات امانة موءداة
  2. الفسطاط ان شاء الل)ه عز وجل بلغ تجمل لل٥
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