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B"H Sunday, portion of Vayishlach, 12th of Kislev, year 5668 here in Baghdad, may G-d establish it
To the honorable Sage Isaac, may his light shine, son of Mr. Aaron Joseph, may G-d preserve him
After inquiring of your welfare and all good forever, I have come to inform you that your precious letter
has reached our hands and we rejoiced in the good news, and we were very worried about your delay there until now, and behold now
we have written a response to your aforementioned letter and handed it to your brother Ezekiel, may his light shine, and he will deliver it
to your hand, and you will certainly look into it and do all that is written in it and strive to depart from there
to the road quickly and without any delay at all, for time is very
pressed and the winter is getting stronger; therefore, do not be lazy, G-d forbid, to leave
immediately, and what you wrote regarding the matter of the partnership with the Sage Ezra, may his light shine,
behold we have spoken with him about this and he is satisfied with it, but he said that
he is forced to delay there for a few days after your arrival there in order to make
an account with the people who are there and to receive the money from them and afterwards he will depart
for the road together with you, and regarding the goods in your hand, strive to sell them there
in whatever way possible, and if you cannot sell them there, bring them here with you
and since you are coming here, G-d willing, we will speak of this here with you face to face
and regarding the document in your hand from the Sage Moses, may his light shine, behold we have written to him
about this that he should pay you the money and we will settle with him here for this, and you shall collect
the money from his hand and bring it with you, and also the money of ours that is in your hand, bring it
with you and everything you can collect from our debtors there, take
from them and bring it with you, and let everything be ready with you so that you are not delayed
there because of this, and we look forward to your arrival in peace, and may the Blessed Name succeed
your way and bring you to life and to peace, Amen, thus are the words of your friend and one who loves
your peace, who seeks your good welfare always all the days
Jacob Joseph
Secret
And they are in all that, as it is appropriate to pay the rent of the son of Joseph and child
the holy person remains in his hand and likewise his hand shall be with him and with others
from the people of the house, and it is necessary that he should not be empty of them for one day, nor from
others, and for that reason Nasr has seen for them an inheritance, and the father of the child was
to the aforementioned on another receiver, the father of Joseph, another with Rubi
the aforementioned, and the child was grown, for they were in his hand a leader like him
and likewise the father of another Joseph, and he was H. Mansur and Brando Diab was
eating for the elder child, the blessed one, and the small one does not improve anything and does not see
to us from paying the rent to you and he has a partnership in the house of the child and he may see
that he does not partner with him <del>then</del> then so-and-so the son of Moses and years were completed for him
for him from paying the rent to you and he has a partnership in the house of the child and he may see
if there were a house for others according to law and not according to the account of the child
and likewise shall be the judgment upon the leaders in every <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> in every
thing that belongs to them because of paying the price from it and from others, then he sees
it was law except for the matter that belongs to them as is required of them, and as for
what belongs to them according to the law, if they were <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> partners in the house of the child, he returns
that of what they mentioned of paying, mentioning that H. Mansur the father of the child
and that which was not already required and another for him <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> then so-and-so the son of Moses, it was required for him to pay
rent, paying the so-called, paying because he has no payment of the price except Mansur the aforementioned
belonging to him from others, but not everything has a partnership in the house of the child, he returns that
Servant of the Creator, the same who is according to your word thus, and do not prevent how not -
That which is according to the word of wisdom is for one of them and is clear in the soul what is in it.
And if there was in the soul of every sick person and it was clearer than that for what will be
That which is in it of that which is in that which is in that
That which is, that which is ⟦illegible⟧ and it is clear in that which is
That which is, is not prevented except upon that ⟦illegible⟧ and it is clear in that
That which is, in that that is in that which is in that which is
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
That which is in that which is in that which is in that
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And the notebook of R. Elisha, or I wrote a week of 28 Shakh in Elul
House of my people and Yosef's money did not go down to stand and to read before R. A. Merciful One
I asked for a chair for Ezer for Adar to the father of the servant Eli, I ask him for a chair for Adar
The healer of their pain is with them, they are the loads of a servant, how * for so-and-so lives
Amir is not Tzaddok, the word of everyone, he takes from the father of the wealth of so-and-so etc.
With him is the easier one whose greatness is known from the generation of Law, or he is from the
Their law * Correct words * Today I will return and we will appoint a chair *
* Not from him, Elazar will not go with a thousand. On the news of R. Ezekiel
⟦...⟧
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This is the gate to the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it
I, the young writer who was privileged by the God of Israel, whose praise is in the assembly of the pious
In His abundant kindness and great goodness, the name of Abraham our father, peace be upon him
To keep and to remember and to fulfill and to do all the words of this Torah
As it is written in the Torah of Moses His servant from the mouth of the Almighty
Which Moses commanded us, a heritage for the congregation of Jacob
And these are the ordinances which you shall set before them
Which a man shall do and live by them
I, the young writer, a servant to the servants of the Lord
My name is Abraham, son of my lord, my father, my grandfather
The honorable Rabbi Joseph, of blessed memory, son of the honorable Rabbi
Ezekiel, of blessed memory, son of the honorable Rabbi
Moses, of blessed memory, known as
Al ⟦...⟧
I wrote this book for the honor of the Name, blessed be He
And for the honor of the Holy Torah, and for the honor of
The soul of my lord, my father, my grandfather mentioned above
May his soul be bound in the bond of life
With the rest of the righteous and pious who are in the Garden of Eden
Amen, eternity, selah, and forever
And it was completed on the sixth day, the Holy Sabbath
Seven days in the month of Adar Rishon, the year
5597 from the creation, here in the city of Baghdad, may God protect it
May it be Your will before You, O Lord my God and God of my fathers
That You grant me the merit to write many books without end
And to study them, I and my descendants and my descendants' descendants
Until the end of all generations, Amen, may it be so.
And the copies that they wrote for the remembrance of those among them in the year 5675 and the last
of what they have from them and likewise the right of the grandfather of the <del>⟦...⟧</del> of that country as it happened -
And he wanted to go on a journey to the country of the Persians. He came on Friday the third of Ab
and his son whom he wanted to go with his brother Isaac Kadouri, Joseph Kadouri
Menashe to Baghdad as he wanted to travel by sea to Australia and he wanted
to prepare himself as he had no assistance since Abu Moshe did not want
Kadouri to carry anything for Menashe because he wanted to travel and likewise
the son of Saleh did not want to go with them because he wanted to go
to Baghdad and likewise he bought for them after ⟦...⟧ for them three bags of black carobs
gold coin 500 hundred black carobs and the rest white carobs 110 ⟦...⟧
white carobs 500 for me to be distributed to the poor as he wishes there to be a remembrance for him
Shah's order 100 black carobs so it would be from Baghdad to Karbala from the side
of the road it would be for the honor of the city or carobs likewise he shall have remembrance on the road
and likewise a coin of carobs from Baghdad to Karbala 50 white carobs
he shall have remembrance as if I paid them from the side of the white carobs
decision that there will be carobs for him and carobs for his brother Isaac Kadouri
there will be carobs for him and likewise thus the total of all will be two bags
and likewise the last payment goes to Baghdad -
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The excellence of the honor of the splendor of the glory of the righteous, dear and exalted gentleman
His good name is honored as Mr. Shaul David Sassoon, may God preserve and protect him
After asking of his good welfare as is the law of love and affection, we come herewith to inform
his honor that yesterday we received his precious letter dated the 28th of Iyar
last, and from it we saw his good health and we rejoiced greatly
May God continue his good health forever, Amen, may it be His will. And regarding
the business which your honor wrote to us to sell the coffee which remained in our hands
from the past year, behold yesterday we sold it at a
good price and we sent the account to your honor with the bearer of this and your honor will see
that we earned a decent sum on it, thank God. And also regarding the wool which
your honor wrote to buy for him, behold it has not yet come down from the mountains
and when it comes down we will buy for your honor according to his order. And the price of wheat
today in Baghdad is a bit expensive due to the lack of rains
but there is hope that rain will fall soon and the rates will become cheaper
with God's help. And regarding the deed which your honor sent to collect from
the righteous Ezekiel, behold we spoke with him and he promised to pay within
a week's time and we will press him until he pays
and we will send the money to your honor. And what your honor asked regarding
the matter of Reuben, behold he still stands in his rebellion and does not want
to listen to the voice of teachers, and may the Blessed Name return him to the good path.
And his house is at peace and all who are joined to him are at peace. Thus are the words of
his faithful friend who seeks his welfare and his good all the days
The young Abdullah Yosef Avraham Somakh, may his Rock and Redeemer protect him
From that which is in ⟦...⟧ and such is the letter which is in Fez and such what ⟦...⟧
On them regarding the debt from the question which is in Fez which is in
the and such is not in anything
And already in this notebook in the and such and in that which is in that which
on them that which is in the hour ⟦...⟧ and already in
in the money which is in the hour which is in the money which
from that which is in that which is in the hour which is in that which is in
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and already in that which is in that which is in the hour which is in that which is in
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6. A story of a certain man who used to earn from work
every single day no less and no more than two dinars
and he would spend one dinar every day on his sustenance and the sustenance
of his wife and his sons, and the second dinar he would throw into the sea
every single day, and he did so for many days until there came
to him Elijah the Prophet, remembered for good, and said to him: Why do you
throw the dinar into the sea? He said to him: My lord, I will tell you,
the one dinar that I eat, I am paying my debt,
and the second dinar that I throw into the sea, I am lending it.
Elijah the Prophet, remembered for good, said to him: And do you throw
the dinar into the sea and say "I am lending it"? He said to him:
Yes. Elijah the Prophet, remembered for good, said to him: If so,
show me the place where you throw the dinar. He went with him
and showed him the place, and there was a certain tree on the seashore.
Elijah the Prophet, remembered for good, said to him: Tie the dinar
in your garment and go up to the top of this tree and throw it into the sea.
When you see a certain fish opening its mouth towards you, throw it inside
its mouth. And he did so, and Elijah the Prophet, remembered for good, went his way.
And that man continued to do so for many days until that
fish died and the sea cast it out onto the dry land. And a fisherman came and found
that fish and saw it was a large and fat fish, and he took it and brought it
to the market to sell it, and that same man came to buy a fish.
With the help of God, RAMB
However, I saw that the words of this man are not honest at all
<del>And because of this I told him not to speak of this matter any more</del> (and among the things)
<del>For I have no desire to hear his words of vanity</del>
And after this I heard from the mouths of other people that this man goes about as a slanderer
And spoke perversely about the Rabbi, may his light shine, therefore it is an evil thing and a
Ugly deed which should not be done in Israel, and also since the aforementioned man, may his light shine, after he heard these things
From other people who are more faithful to me than he is
Became very and greatly angry with me because I spoke harshly with him
And he made himself as if he were very offended by me
And I saw that it is good, and "thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor and not bear
Sin because of him," therefore I spoke straightforward words to him, for it is not a good
Thing that I heard about him, that he spoke perversely about the great Rabbi
Aforementioned, and all the more so if he is a Cohen, for "the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law
At his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts," and how did he have the heart to speak
Error about a righteous and upright man like him, whose name goes
From one end of the world to the other in wisdom and in fear of sin
And how was he not afraid for his soul, for the coal of the righteous burns, and whoever
Profanes the honor of the wise, there is no healing for his wound, and anyone who despises a Torah scholar
Has no healing for his wound
And all the more so if he is a Cohen, who needs to be more careful in this than any
Person in the world, as it is written: "But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept
The charge of My sanctuary, etc., and they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common,
And cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean."
And likewise I warned him not to continue any further to speak perversely about any
Person in the world, and all the more so about a Torah scholar and God-fearing person like him
For this is the way of fools who do not know the way of the Lord
Rand
Tomorrow it is here, and in it five quarters = our words and in it the end of a head between Yeffe
to Sunday enter, and whoever ⟦...⟧ and he will walk with us without breakfast from us
and the first payment will go as Mardaniya from a man's place he will walk
from eating food that night at night they took us
God ka'ak with him without the sits eating and the sitting in the fire tasted
in our fire they sat, what is finished from us leaving and Saad said tonight is finished
⟦line⟧ tomorrow walk to work but from now until morning head between Yeffe
Yeffe entered from the end of the smoke a head came out ⟦...⟧ he does not know our cheek
what now ⟦...⟧ came out going to the river ⟦...⟧ the shops
going to the bath <del>⟦...⟧</del> finished now ⟦...⟧ now ⟦...⟧
the shops remained from the end of the smoke our cheek together the bath enter we went
the market and his son the Hajj Kadori will go when he returns for him to force the knife bowl
when he returned to God from the market from the carpenter a man bowl now
from the carpenter the shops
going out on Friday to the river and working expensive
Sheikh Eliyahu Shamshoni
And the truth of Kafar al-Hija tomorrow Daoud brought as usual from 3 the usual grasped the knife and tasted the Hajj rejoices
stepped on the oud 7 cubits the Hajj 7 the usual grasped the Hajj grasped the oud he went and said because now
Kafi S grasped a cubit the usual S a cubit on the Hajj the Hajj grasped the oud he went and said
from the usual the Hajj the usual condition sail the Hajj's words tired ka'ak taste of the Hajj
the usual sail stepped the usual the Hajj went Daoud words of the usual the Hajj grasped the oud
grasped the hand of the oud ⟦...⟧ the Hajj from ⟦...⟧ the oud sail words of a letter Dana now
on his right leg he stepped on the right leg the usual Daoud the Hajj words increased and the Hajj raised his hand Daoud
the oud the usual stepped the usual from grasping the oud ruined that Yeffe head Daoud in the fire
special and his blood came out
⟦...⟧
And there was with this Khawaja David a servant from our community, Yosef Shmuel,
a resident of Baghdad. He was afflicted with smallpox, and his whole body began to flow with blood,
yet despite that, he did not stop his work for a single day, but rather endured, though the world
turned against him and his condition deteriorated. It was necessary for the aforementioned Yosef to be a man of conscience
and to provide for him at that time. But Yosef refused at that time and did not grant
him anything he requested. Khawaja David was ashamed by those words,
since he knew what he had with him, and whatever the case, he gave him only a very
paltry, small amount. Yosef began to plead with him and say to him, "O Khawaja David, you
are lacking in goodness; you have broken the heart of an orphan and a poor man, may God mend your heart."
But he did not accept it from him. At that time, Rabbi Shlomo
Laniado, our teacher and master, may his light shine, had come up from Baghdad and stayed with the aforementioned Khawaja David in the garden.
It was Friday, and Yosef sat weeping and lamenting his condition and what had happened to him.
He said to him, "O my master, I want you to write him a paper so that he might have mercy on that
orphan." He said to him, "O my son, I do not know how to write to him, nor do I know his tongue,
but you go to him and say to him, 'O Khawaja David, the Haham says to you: Come, eat lunch
with us today.'" So Yosef went and told him, and Khawaja David came and ate and drank,
praise be to God. Then the Haham said to him, "O Khawaja David, how much will you give to this
orphan?" He said to him, "O my master, I will give him a riyal." The Haham said to him, "O my son,
this riyal is not enough for him; give him five riyals, and God will compensate you."
But he did not accept it from him and said, "I will not give him more than one riyal." The Haham became angry
and said to him, "O Khawaja David, give him five riyals and do not break his heart."
But he did not accept, threw the riyal, and left. Then the Haham said to him, "Go, O Khawaja David,
may God afflict your body with the disease of smallpox just as you afflicted the body of this orphan."
Not many days passed before smallpox sores appeared on the body of Khawaja David,
and blood, pus, and worms began to flow from his body, and he died of that disease. We ask God
for safety, forgiveness, and atonement. Amen.
In the name of the Merciful
May his end be good
And the father who had from his wife a daughter in the house all her life she did not know
anything and did not go out from the house, and every day the girl of the
house would go bring her bread, and she and her mother ate from God's grace
and from the hand of God the Generous, just as King David, peace be upon him, said:
He gives bread to all flesh, for His mercy endures forever. And this girl stayed
with her mother and became twenty years old while she was sitting in the house and did not
know anything of the world and knew nothing but her Lord, Glory be to Him and Exalted.
One day her mother died and she remained alone in the house.
The seven days of mourning ended, and she arose from mourning her mother and washed
her clothes and went up to the roof to hang the clothes <del>and come</del>
<del>a young man</del> <del>⟦...⟧</del> <del>⟦...⟧</del> <del>⟦...⟧</del> without evil
she stood watching the world, and she was a very beautiful young woman.
And she had been for twenty years without going out of the door of the house or seeing
any of the human beings; and she saw people coming and going, and people walking,
and someone shouting to sell something, saying: 'To you, O Lord, O Generous.'
May his end be good
And she saw a group of women entering a neighbor's house while they were beating drums and ululating.
This girl said: 'What is this thing, and why are
these women entering?' They said to her: 'These are entering to propose to the daughter of so-and-so
so they may marry her to the son of so-and-so.' And she began watching them and she was crying.
This medicine is specifically for one who has severe ophthalmia in their eye -
Ophthalmia is in its first stage when the ophthalmia is not fixed in the eye; it
is a disease that comes in the last minute when ophthalmia enters the eye, it comes
just as ophthalmia comes from the wind that enters the eye, specifically in the eye
which is weak, and in this case ophthalmia comes in a single hour
and the eye becomes red, and in this hour severe pain comes
in the eye; in this case the medicine must be prepared.
And if there is ophthalmia in the eye that comes little by little, this medicine
does not benefit at all as much as it benefits for the ophthalmia that comes
per hour.
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Medicine for the eye which had ophthalmia coming to it ⟦illegible⟧
<del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
The medicine is that you take wheat flour and put rose water on it,
do not let it be thin, let it be thick like dough,
and place it on the eye that is in pain at night from when
you sleep and leave it until the morning, and wash the eye in
warm water; perform this process for three days in the morning.
Every day prepare for it from the crushed medicine from the morning
and leave it for him in the middle of the eye, and leave it as it is until the night; in
this night prepare for him wheat flour as we said at first, and in
the morning wash for him with warm water and leave it for him as we said.
And if there is in his eye ⟦illegible⟧ the medicine as we said in the morning
every day until the eye is clear, with neither pain
nor redness, and wash the eye with warm water.
And if there is in the eye ⟦illegible⟧
With God's help
For because every crown from the price takes a reward and an increase to the thousand, because
from a thousand the buyer paid this option cycle first to the thousand until it came out
this degree from a thousand it was not confirmed by it, and for that we made the return with an increase in the price
to the seller and the father because the degree might be this necessary for the buyer <del>by himself</del>
the contract if our choice was that, we took by that his hand full of it
and the view of the contract our choice the choice of the gathering is established for the seller and from the choice
the condition and however it was directed that the disposal be evidence of satisfaction then because
mere satisfaction voids the option and the return due to a defect its evidence is one just as
one <del>the option</del> returns after the separation and the father voids by the occurrence of the defect with
the buyer and in the matter there is a long discussion that needs review in its place
and I had permitted <del>the sale of</del> the disposal before the payment for the sold item
the absent one even though it is not permitted to sell a debt for a received item and that is because it is permitted
mere contract the buyer owns the sold item and the price becomes in his liability
so the debt is the price in the liability of the buyer and the sold item became the property of the buyer
so the right to take the sold item for the seller <del>because of</del> because of the delay in payment from
the chapter of suspending ownership upon payment <del>in the</del> <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> we made it a condition in
the contract so if he does not pay then he has no ownership so for that his disposal is valid in that
in this and that by saying I sold to you for such on condition that you pay me
the price otherwise you have no ownership so if he disposed and paid the price his disposal is valid
and for that it is permitted to sell the absent item and in the present case it is treated as the absent item
regarding the lack of seeing so for that his disposal is valid likewise
With the help of God, I write these lines so that they may be
evidence that there will always be union and love between us
and that neither death nor anything else shall separate us; rather we shall be
one soul in one body. And as the wise man said,
the soul returns to its Lord, so it returns to
its original place. Likewise we, my brother, no matter how much we are
far from each other, the soul is one and the body
is one. For this reason I write these lines so that they may be
a remembrance between me and you for all time, and as long as
I live I shall not forget you, my dear brother, for you are in my heart
and engraved in my conscience, and it is impossible that your memory should be erased
from my mind ever. This is what I must do
towards you, my dear brother, so accept them from me as a gift
simple, for I have nothing to give you as a gift other than
these lines which are a precious treasure to me.
And I hope from God Almighty that He will bring us together soon
and we shall be happy with one another as we were
in the past and more. Do not cut off your letters from me
so that my mind may be at ease concerning you, my dear brother.
And I also will not cut off my letters from you.
Other than that, I give my greetings to all the family and relatives,
one by one, great and small, and especially to the dear mother,
and kiss her hands for me and ask her for her satisfaction and prayers.
Deliver my greetings to my brother Kadouri, his mother and his brothers,
and my aunt Lulu, her husband and her children, and the house of my uncle Reuven,
and the house of my aunt Masouda and everyone who asks about me.
May you remain in life and joy, your brother who prays for you
for all good, Salim Yosef Avraham
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Thus spoke from what he mentioned that the sign in all of that is known simply
Similarly for food and for the forbidden, he acted to bring out and perhaps <del>forbidden</del> it will be in the forbidden simply
= That forbidden thing according to the sign in time and how could you deny it simply
If that forbidden thing is not ⟦...⟧ and how is it hidden from him in the Abode of Islam
This talk is not correct and it is unknown ⟦...⟧ and the forbidden is far ⟦...⟧
and the seller simply
And likewise his saying he wants the forbidden to be known so that there is no for the forbidden
entering into the house of the forbidden without the permission of the owner of the house simply = unless he wants simply
therefore for those who want <del>⟦...⟧</del> what is this except crossing a boundary he wants
Likewise the forbidden and for whoever chose it, it would be that the people of the house would not know better
than this that known forbidden thing is that strange forbidden thing that should not be
= for everyone who comes upon it, it does not say to him enter the house without the permission of the owner of the house who
does not eat the forbidden except in the house of the forbidden and it is prevented from entering it without permission
the strange forbidden thing, the people of the house shall not eat the forbidden without the permission of the house owner
= that forbidden thing there is no benefit from it, all the forbidden shall be his
that he wants that forbidden thing to be that it be that
talk that has no meaning and it is not correct and that shall not be simply he wants that
to say to the forbidden that that forbidden thing would be incorrect and that simply he wants that
6 until the day of 23 Tammuz year 5648
With G-d's help
And these are the matters
Yehezkel (may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him) wrote to me regarding the business of ⟦...⟧ of ⟦...⟧ Nachman, may he rest in peace
Regarding the matter of Reuben and Shlomo Kadouri, as if he claimed a Grush from him and he
did not want to give
Rabbi Yosef ⟦...⟧ against ⟦...⟧ Kadouri ⟦...⟧ to everything he has in the hand of our Rabbi
And ⟦...⟧ my lord said and investigated ⟦...⟧ and said that he has nothing with us
persuasion of the poor Nachman ⟦...⟧ and he said ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ and Reuben was paying money ⟦...⟧
He wrote to her ⟦...⟧ Rav Abd-al ⟦...⟧ wrote a response to me
and said that the aforementioned Rav Yosef ⟦...⟧ money ⟦...⟧ the aforementioned Yosef was
and he sought a way ⟦...⟧ of David, the house of ⟦...⟧
and I have no mouth to answer him ⟦...⟧
as your high honor knows ⟦...⟧
and regarding the matter of the marriage permit ⟦...⟧
my lord has already written ⟦...⟧
his name ⟦...⟧
and after the morning prayer
Mr. Isaac (may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him) said to me, a pouch ⟦...⟧
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and Isaac (may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him) said ⟦...⟧
Mordechai (may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him) ⟦...⟧
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With God's Help
A story that happened in Babylon
There was a man in Babylon named Joseph, and he was a very great rich man, as it is said
regarding Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, that it was said of them that there was no blemish in them
And he had one son named Nathan, who was of beautiful form and beautiful appearance ⟦and very wise⟧
And his father loved him with an exceedingly strong love, and would not let him go out
from the doorway even a single step until he grew up and was about twenty
years old, and he was proficient in Scripture, Mishnah, Talmud, Laws, and Legends
And he would sit in his room all day long and engage in Torah day and night
And he did not know any person in the world; even the people of his household did not
see him except for the time when he was eating and drinking, and his father would
make a great feast every year on the day he entered into the Covenant
of Circumcision, and he would invite all the great men of the city, the sages, the princes, and the deputies
And they would eat and drink and rejoice with a good heart. And it happened one day that Joseph grew old,
advanced in years, and his days drew near to die, and he called his son Nathan and said to him, My son,
Behold now, I am old and grey, and I do not know the day of my death, and now listen to my voice
to all that I command you; do not turn right or left from all these things
which I command you today. Know, my son, that I have great wealth
and it is very vast; silver and gold and merchandise and precious stones and pearls
and all kinds of delicacies and all precious vessels such as there were none like them for any
of the princes who were before me; and furthermore, I have one treasure hidden in the ground
that no eye has ever seen, and I am not revealing it to any creature
in the world except for you alone; and be very careful that you do not reveal it to any
person in the world, not even to your wife or your children, except in a time of extreme
need; and this shall be the sign for you: that you shall go to such-and-such a place and dig three cubits into the ground
and you will find there a copper door; open it, and go down the steps, and you will find
And the most important words I have from you even in the matter, do not complete my words without him
In the he shall be in the name of all and this answer was all truth
And he shall not deny any ⟦...⟧ letter of it, that matter in the mouth of David
To which he mentioned that all of that happened ⟦...⟧ and he spoke words from behind a veil
He will not have for me that thing unless ⟦...⟧ he said for it is sweet
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S S
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Or Yom Kippur was on a Friday and that day there was thunder and rain in Kirkuk
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We intended for that, we were terrified of it for fear that it would only be our judgment
And we fell and we stumbled and we entered the house of Khawaja Yusuf and we fell from
The top of the stairs until that day I had no feeling or rest
What is my greatness? We fell under the rain and the stairs were above me
And a great deal of our things were lost, words that cannot be limited
And I was sleeping without a cover and I did not feel anything until
That rain was descending upon us like gutters, so we arose
Afraid and terrified, and it was night and the darkness covered the eyes
And there was a good answer for him
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A sign of atonement on a Friday and another atonement on a Friday also, peace be upon him
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And he was hidden on the next day, his burial, and from week to week that dead person passes
It was mentioned the honor of his name Khawaja Eliyahu Hezekiah Al-Amam, may God have mercy
On him and have mercy on his burial, and he died on the second day, Yom Kippur
From that year and he was hidden on that Friday
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And you, O my honored friend David, may his glory increase forever, I will instruct you in this way you should go
concerning Mr. Joseph, may his Lamp shine, about whom you wrote to me, behold you know that
<del>since the time he came to us he did not behave properly and also did not listen to my voice</del>
<del>and I wrote to him several times to warn him and it did not help</del>
<del>and now I have heard that he is walking in a path that is not good</del>
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However, regarding the matter of the aforementioned Mr. Joseph ⟦...⟧
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Friday 11/28/28 I received the letter dated the 18th of it from Ezra
the brother of Isaac ⟦...⟧ and in it he informs me of the arrival of the letter which I sent
to him in the mail ⟦...⟧ and he mentioned to me that he received from the honorable Saleh 50
an amount of 50 rupees and he spent from them ⟦...⟧ and what remains with him
is only a small amount of the dirhams but ⟦...⟧ the dinars 6 ⟦...⟧
from ⟦...⟧ to be known for that reason I recorded it in that
Friday 4 Kislev 30 I received a letter from Ezra the brother of Isaac dated 28 Kislev
and in it he informs me of the arrival of the letter which I sent to him
in the mail ⟦...⟧ and he mentioned to me that he received from the honorable Saleh 50
and I sent him a package ⟦...⟧ the Friday ⟦...⟧
That day I wrote him a letter and informed him of the arrival of the letter which
he sent to me and I mentioned to him ⟦...⟧ the dinars which I had
sent to them ⟦...⟧ for the sake of Isaac his brother
⟦...⟧ Isaac ⟦...⟧ a copy of the letter which I sent
to him in the mail ⟦...⟧ and he mentioned to me that he received from the honorable Saleh
an amount of 50 rupees and he spent from them ⟦...⟧ and what remains with him
is only a small amount of the dirhams but ⟦...⟧ the dinars 6 ⟦...⟧
from ⟦...⟧ to be known for that reason I recorded it in that
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For that reason I recorded it in that ⟦...⟧
Permission
And I will go on the path to search and found a jar of wheat by his hand <del>and found</del> a seah
in the hand of a clerk for him and found seventy cups of wine. And thus there emerged by his hand
a spider and it went up on his head and ran between his legs and fell and a large funnel on his head
and he went out and fled and went to his house. And he found his wife sitting on the oven
her house and found broken and weak all day he stood and burned his intestines came out and did not enter
when he entered and behold he spilled the hot water on his hand when he entered they were silent he spilled the hot water
it was found that he had nothing in his hand to eat and he broke a pitcher on his head and went out for he was very hungry and went
to his neighbor and borrowed from her and went to the market and found an animal and ran after it
of one animal his hand went up it bit and fled from him and went. And behold on his head
the king's chariot and he decreed between Rosh Hashanah and they poured the garbage on his head
and he went out from there and went to his house Satan came before him he fell into bed and his wound
a great wound and he took medicine and his hand withered he broke jars and spilled the hot water
on his hand he went outside and found it empty and took a loaf ⟦...⟧
he went on his way and found a snake and struck it its venom bit and he found a snake and ran
after it and could not overcome it and he ran to the field and found a gentile who stood and struck him
on his wings and he fled and went to the river and saw fish from the water and jumped into the river
and wanted to take fish from the water and the fish bit him in his hand and it fled from him and he went out
from the water and saw a horse standing and wanted to ride it and it kicked him and he fell
to the ground and his hand and leg were broken and he cried out in a great voice and wept with a weeping
great and it was very bitter for him for all that was done to him
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