Legal document: Moss. IXa,3.20

Legal document Moss. IXa,3.20

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List of synagogue honors and the amounts congregants bid for them, with numbers expressed in Indic/Arabic numerals. Names: Angelino Gallico, Avraham Sabāʿī, Binyamin Yisraʾel, David Sabāʿī (with חמישי afterwards), Daniel De Curiel, Vita Musa Roṣo (Rosso?), someone Yaʿabeṣ, someone al-Malākh [?], someone Levi Ṣevi [?], someone Romano, Ḥayyīm Abul-ʿAfiya, Yosef Ski__[?]. Honors include washing the hands of the priests before they bless the congregants (גסיל אידין לכוהנים), removing or placing the rimmonim on the Torah scroll (רימון) and various numbered ʿaliyot (being called to the Torah during the public Torah reading service). Written on modern ledger paper. Dating: probably 19th c. (Information from Matthew Dudley, Alan Elbaum, Noam Sienna and Moshe Yagur)

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