Creator Bio
Rebecca ha-Levi
18th Century
Rebecca, the widow of R. Ḥayim ha-Levi, lived in Jerusalem in the eighteenth century. Following her husband’s death, she received the funds from her marriage contract: a sum of eight hundred grush. In 1730, she donated three hundred grush to the Yefa‘er Anavim bi-Yeshu‘ah yeshiva in Jerusalem, so that its students could study the Mishnah in memory of her late husband. She also donated an identical sum to another unnamed yeshiva in Jerusalem.
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Testament (Jerusalem)
Behold, an agency was sent to me from the two groups of the yeshiva heads coming to judgment, in whose hand was a written deed, signed by fit and proper witnesses, that the widow, the aforesaid lady…