Ben Ish Hai, R. Joseph Hayyim of Baghdad, Jerusalem 1898 
בן איש חי - First Edition
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- Lot Number 47395
- Title (English) Ben Ish Hai
- Title (Hebrew) בן איש חי
- Note First Edition
- Author R. Joseph Hayyim ben Elijah of Baghdad (Ben Ish Hai)
- City Jerusalem
- Publisher דפוס האחים סאלאמאן
- Publication Date 1898
- Estimated Price - Low 500
- Estimated Price - High 1,000
- Item # 1366675
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Physical Description
First edition. [2], 77; [1]. 64, [1]; 63, [1 ff., folio, 325:204 mm., light age staining, part of title in gild letters. A very good copy bound in later cloth boards, rubbed.
Dedication page in gild.
Detail Description
Homilies blended with halacha and Kabbalah. This work achieved immense popularity, particularly in oriental communities, where it is studied extensively, and has gone through many editions.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.
Hebrew Description
דף עד, ב: השמטות מספרי אדרת אליהו.