Collection of receipts from Yeshiva 'Toraht Chaim' in the Old City, to provide subsidies to the students of the ...

Collection of receipts from Yeshiva 'Toraht Chaim' in the Old City, to provide subsidies to the students of the Yeshiva, great scholars of Jerusalem of the generation and for 'Shmirat Hazmanim' in Yeshiva.

Unique collection, receipts from the famous Yeshiva 'Toraht Chaim' in the Old City, to provide subsidies to the students of the Yeshiva, great scholars of Jerusalem of the generation.

On part of the receipts it is marked that they have been received in merit of 'Shemirat Hazmanim' (keeping the time) of those righteous scholars of Jerusalem.

Among the signers of the receipts for support and assistance are the revered scholars: Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank, Rav of Jerusalem on behalf of the Chief Rabbinate, and Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Reisman, member of Beit Din of Eidah HaChareidit. 

Additional important signatures of famous righteous and scholars of Jerusalem and respectable personal among them;

Rabbi Mendal Tcha'Chik.

Rabbi Zalmlen Devortz.

The Admor Rabbi Shalom Safrin of Komarna [son-in-law or Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Reisman].

Rabbi Shmual Moad, the diligent and modest. From great acquaintances of the Beit Yisrael of Gur.

Rabbi Elya Ram Rav of Kerem neighborhood – receipt with no signature.

Rabbi Yisrael Luria Mashgiach of the Yeshiva father-in-law of great scholars and men of Jerusalem, Rabbi Chaim Greinman, Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Zelznik, Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Weiner, and Rabbi Chaim Aharon Turchin.

16 receipts. 13x10 cm. Filing holes in all with nothing missing. Very well kept condition.

Yeshivat Toraht Chaim in the Old City of Jerusalem, was established in 1886 by the brothers the Geonim Rabbi Yitzchak and Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Winograd and their brother-in-law Rabbi Zarach Eptsein, who saw this as a station on the way for Mashiach to build the Holy Beit Hamikdash and was therefore built in the Christian quarters which is on the way to Har HaBeit. For a certain period this was the Greatest Yeshiva of Jerusalem and hundreds of youths learned there, among them famous Roshei Yeshivot and Rabbanim: Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Aryeh Levine, Rabbi Yitzchak Ariali, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Noah, Rabbi Asher Werner, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Charlap, and Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and many more famous scholars of Jerusalem.

During the events of 1920 Arab rioters entered, destroyed and plundered the Yeshiva. On Shevii shel Pesach (the seventh day of Passover) the rioters set the Yeshiva building on fire destroying everything within. A few years later during the riots of 1929 the Yeshiva was severely damaged. Today the Yeshiva exists in the building of the Yeshiva 'Ateret Kohanim'.