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Manuscript Volume – Halachic Rulings, Ordinances, Responsa and Letters – Autographs and Signatures of Rabbis and Dayanim of Fez and Other Moroccan Cities – 1734-1856 – Halachic Rulings on Salary Received by the Yaavetz from the Fez Community, and More - Volume of manuscripts, halachic rulings, ordinances, responsa and letters – autographs and signatures of Moroccan rabbis. [Ca. 1734-1856]. Most of the volume is by rabbis of Fez, mainly of the generation of the disciples of R. Yaakov Abensour (the Yaavetz), the Beit Din of Five, R. Eliyahu HaTzarfati, R. Matitiah Serero, R. Refael Oved Abensour and their peers. In addition, there are documents dating to the time of R. Yehudah ibn Attar (Mohariba) and R. Yaakov Abensour (the Yaavetz), with their signatures and signatures of members of their Beit Din in Fez, including several important and unique documents (see below). Furthermore, the volume includes many letters and halachic rulings signed by the rabbis of Meknes, including many members of the Berdugo family: R. Refael Berdugo (”Refael HaMalach”), R. Yekutiel Berdugo, R. Petachiah Mordechai Berdugo and others. The volume also includes several halachic rulings and letters from rabbis of Sefrou, Taza, Rabat, Tétouan and Marrakesh. The letters and documents in the present volume include: • Booklet with halachic rulings regarding the salary of the Yaavetz in Fez, including: a copying of the commitment of the people of Fez regarding his salary as city rabbi, dated 1729; a copying of a lengthy halachic ruling, dated 1737 (after the Fez community violated its commitment to the Yaavetz; most of the ruling is hand-copied by the Yaavetz); two original halachic rulings from that year, signed by the rabbis of Meknes – one signed by R. Chaim Toledano (Maharchat), with an addition handwritten and signed by R. Avraham son of David ibn Chasin, and the other signed by R. Yaakov Toledano (Maharit) and R. Yehudah Berdugo (these rulings were published by R. Mordechai Amar in Takanot Chachmei Fez, I, pp. 501-511; for background information, see preface, pp. 58 ff.). • Document of appraisal of courtyards in Fez, dated Elul 1734, signed by the appraisers of the Fez Beit Din, with an additional section signed by the owners of the courtyards, and a confirmation handwritten and signed by the Yaavetz. • Ordinance dated 1742, on the obligation to bring gold to the mint for producing coins, handwritten by the Yaavetz with signatures of the Yaavetz and his peer R. Shmuel Elbaz (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, II, p. 684; R. Shmuel Elbaz was a companion of the Or HaChaim who called him ”my brother”). • Lengthy booklet, halachic rulings exempting R. Avraham Mansano from taxes, first part in scribal handwriting, signed by R. Avraham HaLevi Alfatzina and R. Yehudah HaLevi (both signed twice). In second part, lengthy responsum handwritten and signed by R. Yosef ibn Simchon, who signs in Gibraltar, Shevat 1757, with an additional confirmation signed by R. Efraim Monsonego and R. Yehudah Abudarham, in Tétouan (these rulings were published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, II, ordinance 68, paragraph 3, pp. 567-581). • Confirmation of a halachic ruling handwritten and signed by R. Chaim Toledano of Salé (”Maharchat of Salé”). • Halachic rulings signed by rabbis of Rabat – one signed by R. Ayush Almaliach, R. Shem Tov ibn Attar, with an addition signed by R. Yosef Almaliach (son of R. Ayush; author of Tokpo Shel Yosef); and a second halachic ruling signed by R. Yosef Almaliach and his fellow dayanim R. Moshe de Avila and R. Shmuel de Avila (author of Oz VeHadar on the Talmud). • Confirmation of a halachic ruling signed by the rabbis and kabbalists of Marrakesh: R. Yitzchak Harosh, R. Avraham son of Yaakov Pinto, R. Moshe ibn Attar, R. Shlomo Assebbag, Marrakesh, 1784; and another halachic ruling handwritten and signed by R. Avraham son of R. Yitzchak Pinto, Marrakesh, Elul 1830. • Copying of an ordinance dated 1809, forbidding the delivery of testimony in secret, signed by the rabbis of Fez, with an additional reinforcement of the ordinance in 1818, signed by R. Yehonatan Serero and R. Refael Monsonego (published in Takanot Chachmei Fez, I, ordinance 92, pp. 531-532). Other signatories in the present volume include: R. Yaakov ibn Malka, R. Moshe son of R. Shmuel Elbaz, R. Moshe Adahan, R. Yehudah ibn Attar the second, R. Refael David ibn Attar, R. Shmuel Avraham ibn Zimra, R. Shaul Serero, R. Yaakov Abensour the second, R. Shmuel Eliyahu Abensour (Shaavetz), R. Yaakov Serero, R. Reuven Serero, R. Vidal HaTzarfati, R. Avraham Susan, R. Yaakov HaKohen Alchadad, R. Yosef Ashriki, R. Chaim David Serero, R. Shlomo Toledano, R. Maimon Berdugo, R. Moshe Tobi, R. Mordechai Berdugo, R. Yaakov Berdugo, R. Moshe Maimran, R. Avraham Monsonego, R. Menachem Nahon, R. Shem Tov ibn Walid, R. Yehudah Abudarham, R. Yedidiah Moshe Monsonego, R. Yehudah Elbaz, R. Amor Abitbul, R. Shmuel HaLevi ibn Yuli, R. Yitzchak Abensour, R. Avraham Chalawa, R.