Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
מורשת ישראל; כתב-עת ליהדות לציונות ולארץ ישראל
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,2 (תשף) 299-321
Keywords:
Ashkenazi, Abraham ben Jacob,
;
Gagin, Ḥayyim Abraham ben Moses,
;
Sheluhe de-rabanan
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Rabbis History
;
Rabbis Correspondence
Abstract:
The phenomenon of “rabbinical emissaries” sent from the Land of Israel to Diaspora Jewish communities is well known. The emissaries were usually received warmly in Diaspora communities. Local Jews would host them in their homes, and the community leaders or rabbis would take care of their needs. On occasion, however, Jews refused to help the emissaries collect funds for those who sentthem. They maintained that the community was poor and must first take care of its own members. Sending money to the poor of the Land of Israel would come at the expense of the local poor. The emissaries justified their mission by emphasizing the importance of the Land of Israel, of observing the divine commandments on its soil, and of the partnership the donors would have in religious observance in the Land of Israel. In this study I present a document from 1844 that describes the efforts of Rabbi Abraham Ashkenazi, an esteemed emissary from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to Tunis. In the course of his visit he had to deal with the objection of one of the local rabbis to his collecting money for the poor of Jerusalem and his innovative suggestion that would have threatened the entire enterprise of emissaries from Israel to the Diaspora.
Note:
With an English abstract.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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