Letters of Recommendation by Rabbi Chaim Berlin and by Rabbis of the Jerusalem Beit Din – Jerusalem 1911

Letters of Recommendation by Rabbi Chaim Berlin and by Rabbis of the Jerusalem Beit Din – Jerusalem 1911
Leaf with several letters of recommendation by Jerusalemite rabbis including R. Chaim Berlin Rabbi of Moscow and members of the Perushim and Chassidim Batei Din. Jerusalem, Av 1911.
Call to assist R. Zvi Hirsh Salant (grandson of R. Shmuel Salant), whose financial situation deteriorated compelling him to collect money abroad. R. Zvi Hirsh was widowed from his first wife (granddaughter of R. Yeshaya Bardaki), left alone to support his orphaned children and marry off his daughters.
Two letters by rabbis of the Beit Din appear at the top of the page, signed by six dayanim: Badatz Perushim, signed by R. Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, R. Aryeh Leib Hershler and R. Zvi Pesach Frank. Badatz Chassidim, signed by R. Lipman David Shovaks, R. Avraham son or R. David HaCohen and R. Yerucham Fischel Bernstein.
The other half of the leaf contains a letter handwritten and signed by R. Chaim Berlin, Rabbi of Moscow and leading Jerusalem rabbi at the time this letter was written. He writes: "…This man of noble descent reached the state that he is compelled to wander in the streets to improve his dire situation. Even a heart of stone would rush to assist and revive him…". At the bottom of the leaf is another recommendation, handwritten and signed in Russian, mentioning the names of R. Chaim Berlin Rabbi of Moscow and of R. Shmuel Salant Rabbi of Jerusalem.
The verso contains a long letter of recommendation from the "Elected city committee of the Ashkenazi communities", signed by R. Zalman HaCohen Rubin, R. Eliy[ahu] Meir Leventhal and R. Zerach Efraim Epstein.
[1] leaf, 28.5 cm. Written on both sides. Good-fair condition. Dampstains and wear.