Long Halachic Response in the handwriting of the "Sdei Chemed", Rabbi Chizkiyahu Medini - Kara-Su-Bazar (Crimea) ...

Long Halachic Response in the handwriting of the "Sdei Chemed", Rabbi Chizkiyahu Medini - Kara-Su-Bazar (Crimea), Tamuz 1871
Long Halachic Response handwritten and signed by Rabbi Chizkiyahu Medini to Rabbi David Ben Shimon. The response is on the laws of Tevila (ritual immersion) with a request for Rabbi David Ben Shimon's opinion on a mishap that had occurred in his town regarding the matter.
The response was printed in the book "U'Mitzur Dvash" ("Dvash" are the initials of Rabbi Shimon Ben David), the book of Rabbi Raphael Aharon Ben Shimon, the son of Rabbi David Ben Shimon. On the leaf, Rabbi Raphael Aharon had written: "Hilchot Nidah and Tevila … sent to Ateret Rashenu Maran…". There are differences between the manuscript and what had been printed in the book, such as three lines that had been erased at the beginning of the response (readable), which had not been included in the book and it is unknown who had erased them. The lines are part of the praise for Rabbi Shimon with which the Sdei Chemed begins his response.
The date at the head of the leaf: "The end of Tamuz 5671". During tthese years, the "Sdei Chemed" served as the rabbi of Kara-Su-Bazar in Crimea.
Rabbi Chizkiyahu Medini, author of the "Sdei Chemed", was a Sephardic rabbinical scholar and the author of the halachic encyclopedia "Sdei Chemed" - eighteen sections, and of additional books. He corresponded with the most prominent rabbis around the world. He was born in Jerusalem in 1833, served as a rabbi in Constantinople and later in Kara-Su-Bazar, there he served as a rabbi for 33 years. In 1899, he decided to retire and returned to the Land of Israel. Thousands of people from his community and other cities came to escort him to his ship and they stood watching it "until it disappeared on the waters of the Black Sea". In 1901, he became the rabbi of Hebron, where he died in 1905.
3.5 densely written pages. The size of each page: 19x24.5 cm.
Condition: Very Good. Slight stains. Restorations at the margins.