Letter from the Jerusalem Emissary, Rabbi Yaakov David Yekutiel HaKohen, to the Mantua Community - 1819

Letter from the Jerusalem Emissary, Rabbi Yaakov David Yekutiel HaKohen, to the Mantua Community - 1819
Letter from the Jerusalem emissary, R. Yaakov David Yekutiel HaKohen, addressed to the Mantua community. [Italy], 1819. The leaf opens with a letter in Italian to the Mantua community, with details of the debts of the Jerusalem community and other information. The letter ends in Hebrew (Italian scribal writing) with blessings for a good year. The second half contains a handwritten request of the emissary R. Yaakov David Yekutiel HaKohen, with his calligraphic signature: "These are the words of David, who entreats you to have compassion on the miserable impoverished Jerusalem residents… These are the days that the King sits on his throne of justice… and the Mantua community should be blessed… So says the emissary… Yaakov David Yekutiel HaKohen…". R. Yaakov David Yekutiel HaKohen (Rappaport) was a Torah scholar in Eretz Israel at the end of the 18th century and in the early 19th century. Around 1790, he was sent on behalf of the city of Safed to North Africa, and in 1806, he travelled as emissary of Jerusalem together with R. Refael Yaakov Matlon. In 1809, he printed in Livorno the book Daat Kedoshim by his grandfather R. David son of R. Aharon HaKohen Rappaport. In 1817 he returned to Jerusalem, and later traveled again to Italy to collect funds on behalf of the needy population of Jerusalem. He remained in Livorno from 1821-1823, and printed there his grandfather's book Ben He He. [1] double leaf. 31 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks.