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Manuscript Volume – Halachic Rulings, Ordinances, Responsa and Letters – Huge Collection of Autographs and Signatures of Leading Moroccan Rabbis and Kabbalists – Fez, Meknes, Salé, Sefrou, Marrakesh and More – Includes: 1582 Halachic Ruling from Fez; Signatures of Kabbalists Rabbi Avraham Azulai, Rabbi Avraham ibn Musa and Rabbi Shlomo Amar; Unknown Halachic Ruling of the Or HaChaim, and More - Volume of manuscripts, halachic rulings, ordinances, responsa, letters and documents – autographs and signatures of Moroccan rabbis. [Morocco, most documents and letters from 17th-18th centuries]. Large-format volume, originating from the collection of the Abensour family, descendants of the Yaavetz (one of the volumes assembled by R. Refael Abensour the last, Rabbi of Fez), with a particularly large collection of autographs and signatures of the leading Moroccan rabbis of the 17th and 18th centuries. The volume includes halachic correspondence and many halachic rulings of the rabbis of Fez and Meknes, prominently featuring R. Yehudah ibn Attar (Mohariba), R. Yaakov Abensour (the Yaavetz), R. Moshe Berdugo (the Mashbir), R. Chaim Toledano (Maharchat) and his brother R. Yaakov Toledano (Maharit), R. Chaviv Toledano and other leading rabbis and dayanim of these cities. In addition, many letters and halachic rulings are included by rabbis of Salé (at the time of the Or HaChaim's stay in the city), Tétouan, Sefrou and other cities in Morocco. Many letters of the rabbis of these cities were addressed to the Yaavetz and to the abovementioned rabbis of Fez and Meknes, to which they respond or add their own responsa in the margins of the letters. The letters and documents in the present volume include: • Halachic ruling written in Fez in 1582, by the rabbis of Fez, ”while we, the signatories, were gathered in the new synagogue”. The bottom of the ruling containing the signatures is torn, leaving behind only remains of a few signatures. At top of leaf, late inscription (apparently handwritten by the Yaavetz), with names of signatories: R. Shlomo Uziel, R. Binyamin Nahon, R. Avraham ibn Rimoch, R. Yitzchak Abzardiel, R. Yosef Nahon, R. Yitzchak Chagiz, R. Yehudah Uziel, R. Avraham son of R. Yitzchak HaKohen, R. Yitzchak Abensour, R. Saadiah son of R. Moshe ibn Reboh. • Letter to the rabbis of Salé, dated 1666, signed by the dayanim of Fez – R. Saadiah son of R. Shmuel ibn Danan and R. Imanuel Serero. • Letters and halachic rulings handwritten and signed by great scholars of the circle of kabbalists in Marrakesh – R. Avraham ibn Musa (Raavam), R. Avraham son of R. Yisrael Azulai, R. Shlomo son of R. Avraham Amar (on this circle see: R. Moshe Hillel, Teudah LeToldot Chug Mekubalei Marrakesh BaDor HaRishon, Min HaGenazim, X, 2017, pp. 23-51). • Letters and halachic rulings of the rabbis of Salé, including R. Shalom Abensour, R. Yitzchak de Loya (halachic teacher of R. Avraham ibn Musa and R. Shlomo Amar), and others. • Letters sent by rabbis of Algiers: a 1696 letter addressed to the dayanim of Fez, signed by R. Maimon Yafil – Rabbi of Algiers (author of Pri Tzaddik, Livorno, 1759; d. 1727) and R. Yosef Muati; letter signed by R. Maimon Yafil and R. Saadiah son of R. Nehorai Azubib (signature of latter partially lacking); a 1740 letter to the Yaavetz in Tétouan, signed by R. Yehudah Ayash (author of Beit Yehudah), R. Avraham Yafil, R. Yitzchak Shuraki and R. Yosef Binyamin Duran (this last letter was published by R. Mordechai Amar in Takanot Chachmei Fez, I, document 31, pp. 935-941). • Ordinance of the rabbis of Fez, dated 1677, on representation before the authorities, with many signatures, including: R. Saadiah son of Shmuel ibn Danan, R. Yehudah son of Yosef Uziel, R. Mordechai son of Yitzchak Assaban, R. Vidal HaTzarfati, R. Menachem son of David Serero, R. Yaakov ibn Danan and others (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, I, ordinance 50, pp. 323-324). • Ordinance of the rabbis of Fez, while in Meknes, dated 1708, signed by R. Yehudah ibn Attar, R. Shmuel HaTzarfati, the Yaavetz and R. Avraham ibn Danan (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, II, ordinance 62, pp. 519 ff.). • Ordinance of the rabbis of Fez, dated 1712, abolishing the tax on raisins, grapes, figs and dates, signed by R. Yehudah ibn Attar, R. Shmuel HaTzarfati and the Yaavetz (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, I, ordinance 63, p. 389). • Ordinance of the rabbis of Fez, dated 1713, signed by R. Yehudah ibn Attar, R. Shmuel HaTzarfati, the Yaavetz and R. Avraham ibn Danan (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, I, pp. 372 ff.). • Ordinance of the rabbis of Fez, dated 1737, signed by the Yaavetz, R. Shalem Edre'i, R. Shmuel Elbaz, R. Shlomo Adahan, R. Avraham Attiya and R. Yosef ibn Saadon (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, II, ordinance 83, pp. 645-647). • A copying of a lengthy halachic ruling by the Or HaChaim, dated 1727, ”which we were asked to copy from the handwriting of my teacher… R. Yehudah ibn Attar…”.