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Rare Kol Koreh bearing the handwritten signatures of the Gedolei Yerushalayim, to assist in the purchase of land and construction of a new building for the “Bikur Cholim” hospital in Jerusalem. Jerusalme, 17 Iyar 1907. “And therefore the esteemed Rabbanim administrators acted properly in striving to purchase, in an open place full of light and air, a large parcel of land at the price of sixty thousand francs, in order to erect upon it a large and spacious building, broad in its dimensions and elegant in its structure, as necessity demands of them…” Letter of the Gedolei Yerushalayim — Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer, and Rabbi Eliyakim Shlomo Shapira — for the benefit of constructing the “Bikur Cholim” hospital building. Yerushalayim, 1907. [1] leaf, official hospital stationery, entirely handwritten, on both sides of the leaf. Includes a signed letter from the administrators and treasurers of the “Bikur Cholim” hospital: Rabbi Yechiel Michel Pines, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Mondschein, Rabbi [Shraga] Feitel Berman, Rabbi Nosson Neta Kass, and Rabbi Asher Eliezer Levy. Also includes an additional letter from the Gedolei Yerushalayim reviewing the history of the hospital from its founding and the need to enlarge the hospital following the growth of the Jewish population in Jerusalem. With the signature stamp of Rabbi Shmuel Salant and handwritten signatures of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer, and Rabbi Eliyakim Shlomo Shapira, together with their stamps. This proclamation was printed, with changes and with the cost of donating a bed and a department, in “Seder HaChagigah LeHanachas Even HaPinah LaBinyan HeChadash HaNehdar Asher Boneh Pekidus Beis HaCholim HaTziburi Bikur Cholim” (Jerusalem, 1910, p. 12). In the present copy, space was left for an additional signature, and in the printed version, the signature of Rabbi Yoel Moshe Salomon was added, while the signature of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Mondschein was omitted. Rabbi Yechiel Michel ben Noach Pines (1843–1913) — author, thinker, founder of a school for Torah and labor, redeemer of lands, and public activist. Born in the Grodno region, and in 1877 appointed by the committee of “Mazkeres Moshe Montefiore” as their representative in Jerusalem, whereupon he ascended to Eretz Yisrael. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Mondschein (d. 1908) — a wealthy Jew among the distinguished elite who immigrated from Warsaw to Jerusalem. In his will, he instructed that funds be allocated annually to pay guards to prevent mingling between men and women on the night of Simchas Yom Tov in the Beis Yaakov synagogue in the courtyard of the Hurvah of Rabbi Yehudah HaChasid. He was extensively involved in communal needs in Jerusalem and served among the administrators of the great “Toras Chaim” Yeshiva and the “Bikur Cholim” hospital. Harav Hachasid Rabbi Asher Eliezer ben Rabbi Yehudah Leib Levy — a pharmacist by profession, appointee of the Warsaw Kollel, and gabbai of the “Bikur Cholim” hospital. HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Shmuel Salant , Rav of Yerushalayim (1816–1909) — renowned from his youth and swiftly recognized as one of the Gedolei Torah of the generation. Son-in-law of HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, founder of the Mussar movement, and the foremost disciple of Rabbi Avraham Abba Posweler of Vilna. For many decades, he served as Rav, Halachic authority, Posek, and leader of the Ashkenazic community in Yerushalayim, and was recognized as the central authority through whom all communal and individual matters were decided. The renowned Gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin (1832–1912) — eldest son of the Netziv of Volozhin, great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, Rav of the distinguished cities of Volozhin, Moscow, and Yerushalayim, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva for a certain period, and among the greatest Rabbanim of his generation. He also served in Kobrin and in Kropyvnytskyi and its environs in Ukraine for a decade. HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer of Petersburg (1837–1907) — among the greatest disciples of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement, and among the earliest transmitters of Mussar. After serving in several places as a disseminator of Torah and Yirah, Mussar, and Halachah, he began serving as the spiritual director of the Kelm Yeshiva. He ascended to Eretz HaKodesh and resided in the well-known Strauss courtyard. Revered by all the Jews of Yerushalayim, he earned his livelihood through work in the administration of the Vaad HaKlali and served as its unofficial leader. He authored Sefarim, foremost among them “Pri Yitzchak.” Rabbi Eliyakim Shlomo ben Rabbi Chaim Shapira — Rav in Kropyvnytskyi, and from 1885 a renowned Halachic authority in Horodno. Son-in-law of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Rabinowitz, who had served previously as Moreh Tzedek there in Horodno. He ascended to Yerushalayim and passed away there in 1908. His Chiddushim were printed in various Sefarim and responsa. Fold mark, stains,