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Lot #
15755
Auction End Date
9/5/2006 1:17:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Kabbalistic supplication
Title (Hebrew)
מודעה וגילוי דעת
Author
[Liturgy - Kabbalah - Unrecorded] Ben Ish Hai
City
Jerusalem
Publisher
Zion
Publication Date
c. 1925
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
17 pp., 120:92 mm., light age staining, unbound as issued. Not listed in bibliographies.
Detailed
Description
Homilies blended with halacha and Kabbalah. R. Joseph Hayyim b. Elijah Al-Hakam (1833 or 1835–1909), was born in Baghdad, he studied with his maternal uncle, R. David Hai b. Meir. In 1848 he began to study under R. Abdallah Somekh. He succeeded his father (1859) as preacher, a post he held until his death. In 1869 he visited Erez Israel. In 1876 Jacob Obermeier of Vienna, who had come to Baghdad to teach French, insulted R. Joseph Hayyim. The community excommunicated him and compelled him to request the rabbi's pardon. Al-Hakam was renowned as a great halakhic authority who instituted many takkanot. He wrote some 60 works on all aspects of Torah, only a few of which have been published. He is best known for his Ben Ish Hai. His other published works include Ben Yehoyada (1898–1904), five volumes of commentaries to the aggadic portions of the Babylonian Talmud and Rav Pe'alim (1901–12), responsa. He wrote approximately 200 piyyutim and pizmonim, about 50 of which are incorporated in the liturgy of Baghdad Jewry; the rest are still in manuscript.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
Israel:
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Subject
Kabbalah:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
