מסמך משפטי: T-S 20.25

Recto

1. … take it from him just as your relative Yibqi b. ’Abu Razin took [him]
2. … rather 250 gold pieces, which he sent, and he took them
3. … news of them, their abuse and hard work. What is more, there is among them a young girl
4. …m for her, so that they not abuse her. We constantly weep about the magnitude of our sins
5. …and we were captured [and taken] from place to place. After all of this we took
6. … [e]lderly and went to his tents, where we stayed in the heat of the day and the frost of the night
7. … on our behalf to him, and we made a request of him. There then passed between us and him [i.e., the pirate, the relative of Yibqi b. Abu Razin] many words
8. …to you from me an Edomite slave who is worth 20 gold pieces, so he brought him
9. “… take your brother and go.” We told him that we could do no such thing
10. …[for] we would be incurring a cost prohibited by religious obligation, as our sages taught us:
11. … “[one does not redeem] captives for more than their worth, to avoid encouraging the practice.” So, we returned to
12.  …we… to our elder, Mar Rav Nathan ha-Kohen, may he live on, and to the rest of the holy congregation
13. … these things. Rav Nathan responded and said, “Let the matter rest until the money arrives …
14. … I will deal in this matter as you wish and according to my ability – may God bring [me] success.”
15. … a letter from Mukhtar the Arab, and he said to him that he sent my son Jabarah
16. … the Jews to the region of Barqah, but I will not send them, for your sake
17. … after the entire community, and he recounted the entire story to them, but they said “We cannot
18. … from among the captives for 100 gold pieces, so he sent him responses
19. … “you asked about them, and God will bring success to the endeavor and double his reward.”
20. … and they said … their privation, and since the slaves
21. … our weeping on their behalf
22. … to her