Scholarship on Letter: ENA 2727.7a
Letter ENA 2727.7a- Bibliographic citation
- Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).
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- Doc. #44, pp. 244-246
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- Digital Edition
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- Bibliographic citation
- S. D. Goitein, index cards.
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- Discussion
- Bibliographic citation
- S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions.
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Editor: Gil, Moshe
Translator: Gil, Moshe (in English)
ENA 2727.7a 1
- ממא אערף מולא אלשיך
- אבו אלמעאלי נט רח אן הדא
- מ אהרן הלוי הזקנ בן מ יוסף
- הלוי הבורסקי נע ופאץ כנאה
- פי דאר אלפד פי אלקדס
- תבנה במהרה בימינו ובימי
- כל עמו ישר והו מן אלמקאדס[ה]
- אלאולא לא שך פיה ולא מרא
- וקד טלב מן יחצה מן דור
- אלמק/א\דסה אד הו פי צר
- אן זאיד ⟦ואק⟧ וקאל אנה אדא
- //אכד\\ מא יחצה פי הדה אלזמאן
- יקתת בה ופי וקת ופרקה
- ליס יטלב שיא פיתפצל יכתב
- רקעה אלי ר שלמה המלמד
- במא תראה אנה מסתחק
- ושלום
Recto
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I inform our Master al-Shaykh
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Abūʾl-Maʿālī, may God preserve him, that this
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our Master Aaron ha-Levi ha-Zāqēn the son of our Master Joseph
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ha-Levi ha-Bursiqī, of blessed memory, is heavy-laden
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in the compound singled out for Jerusalem,
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may it be reconstructed soon in our times and in the times
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(7-8) of His entire people of Israel. And that he is one of the first Jerusalemites, there being no doubt nor suspicion concerning him.
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He is requesting (his due) from (the man) who (is in charge) of the allocations of the compounds
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(10-11) of the Jerusalemites, since he is in a great distress. He declares that if he
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received his share now
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(13-14) he would disengage himself with it (of his distress) and at the time of the (regular) distribution he would not request anything. So please write
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a note to R. Solomon ha-Melammēd
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regarding (the sum) that you consider proper.
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Greetings.