מסמך משפטי: Yevr.-Arab. I 328

תיאור

Legal record (#141) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 47r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, the upper half of the page is torn away so the opening lines are missing. Neighboring entries are circa late 1569–1570 CE. Incomplete testimony regarding a dispute that may be related to the subsequent record #142 based on the mention of the "house of the wālī" in both records. Some key details of the case are missing in the opening lines but it seems that the conduct of multiple community members is in question in connection with Jindiya, who is probably the wife of Rabbi Yaʿaqov al-Ḥazzan. In the final lines of the draft entry, the judges tell Yaʿaqov that he "should divorce his wife and give her her ketubba because she does not have any witnesses." The dispute involving Jindiya is related to her claim that someone slapped(?) her: "ויכפיהא פגנדיה //אלמד אע׳// כאפת מן אלה", but the verbal orthography reads more so as "to have enough with" or "to be fed up with someone" (يكفي). Denying this claim, Ṣedaqa and Yaʿaqov then testify that they were "כאופין (slapped?) by Farjallah b. Shuqayr." Both of these phrases in ll. 1-3 use the word אל unclearly, at least once as a noun (possibly as a loanword el=ال=hand in Ottoman Turkish). Later on in lines 5-6, Yaʿīsh testifies with the cryptic phrase: "my energy/soul was not drained (מא אכלי רוחי) in the house of wālī and I am not content bearing witness for what he is saying..." These issues may relate to (over)consumption of alcohol based on the next record in the court register, where several wine merchants agree to new and more prohibitive terms for buying/selling alcohol after an unnamed crime took place in "the house of the wālī." MCD