Life Insurance Policy for the Jerusalem "Contractor," Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Eraky. Jerusalem, 23.08.1926

Life Insurance Policy for the Jerusalem "Contractor," Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Eraky. Jerusalem, 23.08.1926

Policy no. 548, Yehudah Liability and Security Company, Ltd., life insurance for Chaim Shlomo Eraky.

Specifications: [2] leaves, paper, 46x30 cm. An additional leaf, 31x24 cm, is pasted to the internal leaf. Hebrew and English. The insurance company's large, impressive wax seal is impressed on the policy.

Payments were established for up to 25 years, and the sum of the insurance payment in the event of death was 1000 Egyptian pounds. The insured was 39 years old, a Jerusalem native, and his birthdate as written on the policy was "Cheshvan 1887[!]" The insured's occupation, according to what is written on the policy, is "contractor." His wife's name is "Turkiah" and his son's name is "Shlomo."

This life insurance policy can reasonably be considered to be that of the "contractor" Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Eraky [Jerusalem 1886-1971], a public personality from the Yemenite community in Jerusalem. The rabbi served as a certified ritual slaughterer for the Yemenite community, an adjudicator in Jerusalem's Yemenite rabbinical court beginning in 1939, rosh yeshivah of the Chayei Shalom yeshivah, member of the assembly who chose the chief rabbinical council of Israel (1945), candidate for the "Yemenite Jews" list for the Jerusalem municipality (1950), member of the spiritual committee of the Yemenite community (1955) and honorary president of the rabbinical council of the Yemenite community of Israel (1959).

In 1923, Rabbi Chaim Slomo Eraky was among the founders of the Jerusalem neighborhood, Nachalat Achim, where he established a home for immigrants, a Talmud Torah and a synagogue, which were eventually named after him, called Mekor Chaim. This is the source of the "occupation of the insured: contractor" in the policy before us.

Fold marks, tiny tear on the side of the leaf. Fine-very fine condition.