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Lot #    23400
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 12:35:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Obadya Hadaya
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר עבדיה הדאיה
Author    [Ms.]
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1963
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 145:228 mm., light age staining, typewritten on stationary, signed in ink, dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Obadya Hadaya (1893–1969), was born in Aleppo, Syria. In 1898 he was brought to Erez Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He studied in Sephardi schools and yeshivot, including Yeshivat Porat Yosef, where from 1923 he taught both Talmud and Kabbalah. He was a member of the bet din of the Sephardi community of Jerusalem. From 1939 to 1950 he was chief rabbi of the Sephardi community in Petah Tikvah, and from 1951 chairman of the rabbinical high court of appeals and a member of the chief rabbinate council. He revived the kabbalist yeshivah Kehal Hasidim Bet El in Jerusalem, previously housed in the Old City but destroyed in 1948 during the War of Independence. Attached to the yeshivah was a department for the training of rabbis, His works include Eved ha-Melekh on Maimonides; Avda de-Rabbanan, on the Mishnah and Talmud; and the responsa Va-Yikah Ovadyahu, Yisrael Avdi, and De'ah ve-Haskel. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Rabbinical Literature in 1968.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica