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Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, the Or HaChaim – Inside a Large Volume with Hundreds of Autographs and Signatures of His Contemporary Moroccan Rabbis – Including Many Autographs of Rabbi Yaakov Abensour, Rabbi Yehudah ibn Attar, the Mashbir, the Marbitz and Others - Large volume of halachic rulings, letters and halachic responsa, containing hundreds of autographs and signatures of leading Moroccan rabbis – including a letter handwritten and signed by R. Chaim ibn Attar, the Or HaChaim. · Letter handwritten and signed by the Or HaChaim, addressed to the members of the Meknes Beit Din – R. Yaakov Toledano, R. Yehudah Berdugo and R. Maimon Adahan. The Or HaChaim signs his letter: ”…peace to my brothers and friends from life and peace, so says Chaim son of Moshe Attar” (in his calligraphic signature). The Or HaChaim begins his letter: ”Friends of G-d and of me, the perfect scholars, the excellent dayanim, R. Yaakov Toledano, R. Yehudah Verdugo and R. Maimon Dahan”. In his letter, the Or HaChaim attempts to alleviate the tax burden on ”the dear, honorable R. Yehudah ibn Nachmias”. The letter appears on leaf 120 of the present volume. Apparently, the Or HaChaim wrote this letter between 1737-1739, before leaving Morocco on his way to Eretz Israel ca. Iyar 1739, and after R. Maimon Adahan's appointment as dayan in the Meknes Beit Din in 1737 (see: R. Avraham Hillel, Pesak Din Chachmei VeRabbanei Fez BiDevar Serarat Batei HaKeneset, Min HaGenazim, IV – 2015, pp. 69-70). The letter was first published in Takanot Chachmei Fez by R. Maury Mordechai Amar, Paris 2013, pp. 54-56. · Volume with collected halachic rulings and responsa by Moroccan rabbis. The volume contains hundreds of autographs and thousands of signatures of rabbis and dayanim of Morocco, most dating to the late 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. The present volume comes from a collection of volumes of halachic rulings by Moroccan rabbis, compiled and preserved in Fez by the descendants of R. Yaakov Abensour – the Yaavetz. This collection also formed the basis for forming the Dovev Siftei Yeshenim society, established in Fez in the late 19th century in order to publish the teachings of Moroccan rabbis. One of their important projects was a two-volume edition of Responsa Mishpat UTzedakah BeYaakov by the Yaavetz (Alexandria, 1894-1903), where some of the halachic rulings and responsa in the present volume were printed. The present volume contains extensive portions of the Yaavetz's teachings, including dozens of leaves in his handwriting: halachic rulings and letters he wrote, his handwritten drafts and Torah novellae, and more. Additionally, the volume contains many letters sent to him, and halachic rulings he signed along with his fellow rabbis and dayanim of Morocco. The volume also contains many autographs and signatures (over 20) of his teacher R. Yehudah ibn Attar (the first); the Yaavetz served as dayan in Fez alongside him, and they signed together on most halachic rulings issued in those days. Some of the present documents contain the Yaavetz's signature alongside signatures of Meknes dayanim, from his stay in Meknes between 1718-1728, and in others his signature appears alongside Tétouan rabbis, from his exile to Tétouan in the wake of a famine that broke out in Fez in 1738-1741. The present volume also includes manuscripts and signatures of the rabbis of Fez of that time: R. Vidal HaTzarfati, R. Menachem Serero (both teachers of the Yaavetz), R. Avraham ibn Danan, R. Shalom Edre'i, R. Saadiah ibn Danan, R. Maimon Aflalo, R. Yaakov ibn Malka, R. Yehudah son of Reuven Abensour (brother of the Yaavetz), R. Refael Oved Abensour (son of the Yaavetz), R. Shaul ibn Danan, R. Eliyahu HaTzarfati and others. Additionally, the present volume contains manuscripts and signatures of leading rabbis of Meknes: R. Yosef Bahtit, R. Moshe Toledano, R. Chaviv Toledano, R. Moshe Berdugo (the Mashbir; approx. ten of his signatures), R. Mordechai Berdugo (the Marbitz), R. Yehudah Berdugo, R. Yaakov Toledano (Maharit), R. Chaim Toledano (Maharchat), R. Moshe Adahan, R. Maimon Adahan and others. Furthermore, the present volume contains manuscripts and signatures of rabbis from the following cities: Salé – R. Shmuel Karo, R. Shlomo HaKohen Alkhalatz, R. Shalom Abensour, R. Mordechai HaKohen, R. Yichye Abecassis and R. Yaakov Bibas; Tétouan – R. Chasdai Almosnino, R. Menachem Attiya, R. Shlomo Abudarham; Sefrou – R. Shmuel Chuta, R. Yehoshua ibn Chamu; and others. Like the letter of the Or HaChaim regarding community taxes which appears in the present volume, several halachic rulings and letters dealing with tax exemptions or deductions for various individuals also appear in this volume (see below). Some examples of important letters and halachic rulings appearing in the present volume: On leaf 117 – letter from the Yaavetz to the rabbis of Meknes – ”The perfect scholars… R. Chaim Toledano and his brother R.