Handwritten Autograph by the Rishon LeTziyon Rabbi Chaim Moshe Elyashar. Jerusalem, C. Early 1900s.

Handwritten Autograph by the Rishon LeTziyon Rabbi Chaim Moshe Elyashar. Jerusalem, C. Early 1900s.

Large manuscript, responsa and halachic correspondence with rabbinic leaders of Jerusalem handwritten by the Rishon LeTziyon, Rabbi Chaim Moshe Elyashar, son of the Yisa"h Berachah. Signed autograph. These responsa were apparently printed in Shu"t Moshe HaI"sh.

The manuscript bears, inter alia, complex halachic queries asked of the Rishon LeTziyon, Rabbi Chaim Moshe Elyashar, by rabbinic leaders of the generation, and Rabbi Elyashar's responsa.

The Rishon LeTziyon, Rabbi Chaim Moshe Elyashar, known as HaRav Cham"a [1845-1924] was the son and disciple of the Rishon LeTziyon, the gaon Rabbi Ya'akov Shaul Elyashar, author of Yish"a Berachah, and son-in-law of the Rishon LeTziyon, Rabbi Raphael Meir Panigel. His roots are in an ancient rabbinic family based on an Ashkenazic family named "Vilna" that became integrated among the Sephardim in the 18th century. The Cham"a led the Va'ad HaRabbanim BiYerushalayim which united the Sephardic Chachamim and the Ashkenzic rabbis of Jerusalem and became the basis for the chief rabbinate of Israel. The Va'ad was under the directorate of Rabbi Chaim Moshe Elyashar and Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin. His published works include: Shu"t Moshe HaIsh (Jerusalem, 1921) and Pnei Cham"a which was published together with his father's Sha'al HaI"sh (Jerusalem 1901). It is known that Cham"a left behind additional manuscripts, apparently including this one before us.

[46] large pages, 20x33 cm. Moderate-fine condition. Aging stains. Fold marks, tears in the folds with blemishes to isolated words. Not bound.