מכתב: T-S 10J17.16

תיאור

Letter to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva (in office ca. 1170–71 and 1173–95), in which the muqaddam of Qalyub (the handwriting is that of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) excuses himself from appearing in person on account of his illness. He certifies that there was no civil or religious impediment to the marriage of the girl called Ama'im, daughter of Abu 'l-Ḥasan. Goitein reconstructs thata the Gaon ordered an inquiry because the family had moved from one place to another. From the letter we learn that the family moved to Qalyub, the mother died there, the girl's sister was married to a freedman, and her brother had moved from Qalyub to the Manufiyya district, where he embraced Islam. He took Ama'im with him but apparently she returned (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 301, 591; III, p. 81; V, pp. 108, 110) VMR Edition in Yagur's dissertation, #21