Cairo Genizah : Letter

Yešuʿa ha-Kohen ha-Qaṭan b. Joseph the judge

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>The leaf contains a large selection of signatures above a few lines of text beginning ‘And I am Yešuʿa ha-Kohen ha-Qaṭan b. Joseph the judge’ and which sends greetings to ‘ha-Sar ha-gadol’. It is probably part of a letter sent on behalf of the Alexandrian community. The names of those signing are: Ezekiel b. Abraham, Šemarya b. Š[...], Solomon b. Ṯābit, Sarī the teacher b. Ḥayyim, Abraham b. Farraḥ, Judah b. Isaac, Ṣedaqa b. Joseph, Šeʾerit b. Abraham b. Ḥabib, Šalom b. Daniel al-Kohen, Ezra b. Aaron, Joseph b. Farraḥ, ʿAmmār b. Yešuʿa, Naḥmān b. Ṣedaqa, Jacob b. Šalom, Mattān ha-Kohen b. Jacob ha-Kohen, Jacob b. Ezra, Jacob b. Dāʾūd and Menuḥa ha-Kohen b. Joseph. </p>