Title: Shetar
Date: 1890
Description: Shetar of Shemuel and Menucha – marriage certificate concluded on the fourth day of the twentieth month of Adar, five thousand six hundred and fifty years after the creation of the world. One person recorded it and everyone signed it here, in the Karaite community in the Pokuttia region, in the state of Galicia, during the reign of the gracious Emperor Franz Joseph I, may he live long and in good health. Amen. On this day, the honorable and distinguished Mr. Shemuel, son of the honorable and distinguished Mr. Mordechai Shalom, a scholar, an elder, a distinguished man, blessed be his memory, came and stood before the mighty force of the Karaites. And they did not do me violence, and I was not out of my mind, I did not err, and I did not act under duress, but I was of sound mind and in my right mind, of my own free will and of my own desire, I ask you and appoint you as witnesses that I have chosen and take Menucha, Toranit, daughter of the honorable Moshe, a noble lady, a chaste girl, as my wife in purity and holiness, according to the Torah of Moshe, a man of God and of the pure and holy faith of Israel.
Inventory number: НЗДГ КН-13469 АДР-152
