Scholarship on Legal document: T-S 10J11.4

Editor: Gil, Moshe

Translator: Gil, Moshe (in English)

T-S 10J11.4 1r

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Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Brill, 1976).

Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Brill, 1976).

Those who affixed their signatures and names
(2-3) at the end (of this document declare) that in the first decade of the month of Teveth of the year 1555
of the documents, we were contacted by al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Thinā al-Ṣayrāfī b. al-Shaykh Abū
Saʿd al-Ḥazzān ha-Qāvuāʿ, of the synagogue of the Jerusalemites,
may it be rebuilt and reestablished during the times of the whole House of Israel,
known as Ibn Ṭayyib, may God preserve him. He requested
us to help him rent
an apartment from the waqf, in the vicinity of the Synagogue
(11-14) where he and his father should establish themselves; but as there was no empty apartment at that time, nor was it possible to evict anybody from his apartment so as to let them receive it, he told us: I am willing
to rebuild the ruined compound, the ruin
known as Dār Sitt Ghazāl, that is adjacent
to the gate of the well belonging to the Synagogue of the Palestinians.
(18-19) You will help me repair it with a small sum, of 200 dir., and also with
timber that is at your disposal. I shall spend
the remaining (sum) for its rebuilding from my own and
rent….

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A house whose neighborhood is built up is better
(2-3) than one adjacent to ruins. Also there is the fact that it will afterwards yield profit
for the entire waqf. So we said to him: Yes,
we will accept your request on the condition that when you
have covered the expenditure that you made
and you decide to live in it (further) you should rent
the apartment from us, for the sum of money
that it will be worth at that time.
He then accepted the condition which we imposed upon him
as mentioned by us above, and we accepted his
request. And we herewith affixed
(13-14) our signatures to this deed as mentioned above and said to him: Adhere to its text
concerning our lease so that there be unanimity
of opinion. (Canceled: greetings). One succeeds
by praying to God. Greetings.

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