By Rabbi Chaim Yaakov HaCohen Feinstein
The author was a Chassidic emissary in Safed to the cities of India. When he arrived in 1866. The Gvir Yechezkel Yehuda Sassoon daughter, was sanctified without her knowledge by a simple man for marriage. Rabbi Feinstein felt it was not a good Kidushin.
(See Sefer Ndiv leiv, Jerusalem, 1866)
In the year 1886-87, In India he also saw many Customs that were not to be believed. He, therefore, composed this booklet.
He resented the fact how people of money means would build beautiful synagogues, but would not adhere to old traditions.
During that time in India, the presidents of the Jewish communities ordered donations not be made to Ashkenazi emissaries from the Land of Israel, and he opposed the discriminatory installation between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews.
On the emissary and his missions See Yaari ‘Shluchi Eretz Yisroel’, pp. 831-2.
Calcutta, 1866.
Extremely rare, the only known copy is on microfilms in the Sassoon collection.
Never appeared at auction.
Inscription of the previous owner: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Eckstein who writes he received this booklet as a gift from Rabbi Moshe Neiman, son of Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon of sas. Chust, 1900.
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