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Tag: halisa
6 records found
Legal document of ḥaliẓa, probably from the first decade of the 18th century (the year is very faded but appears to begin 546[.]). Shelomo b. Saʿīd died and his widow rejects his brother Aharon b. Saʿīd.
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). Dated: 18 Shevaṭ 1326 Seleucid, which is 1015 CE. Location: Fustat. For Farjiyya bt. Sahlān. Her husband Yehoshuaʿ b. Moshe died, and so the ceremony was conducted to release her from having to marry his brother Yehuda. No signatures. Square book hand with carefully justified margins. See Med Soc III, IX, C, 1 n. 223. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Formulary for a legal document of ḥaliẓa (rejection of levirate marriage). On vellum.
Letter from Avraham ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʿaqov, in Tūnis, to his brother Peraḥya b. Yaʿaqov, in Palermo ("Sicily"). The letter deals with a matter of ḥaliẓa (release from levirate marriage) in which the brother is still a minor. It also discusses the uses of communal funds and the high price of wheat. Information from Ben-Sasson, Jews of Sicily, p. 643 and from Goitein's index cards.
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij b. Ṣāliḥ and Surūr bt. [...].
Geṭ ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: New Cairo. Dating: 1127–38 CE, based on Ḥalfon's years of activity and the fragmentary reference to Maṣliaḥ Gaon. The widow is named [...]a bt. Menashshe ha-Levi. Her late husband is Yosef ha-Levi (or conceivably [... b.] Yosef ha-Levi).
