Lot 265
Handwritten Leaf by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim, Author of Ben Ish Chai – With a Request for Shemira
A handwritten leaf, outline for a sermon on repentance and blowing the shofar. Autographic writing by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Chai. [Baghdad, c. 1890s].
Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Chai and numerous other important books (1833-1909), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim ben Rabbi Moshe Chaim, Rabbi of Bagdad. Disciple of Rabbi Abdallah Somekh. After his father's death in 1859, at the age of 26, Rabbi Yoseph Chaim delivered a sermon in the Great Synagogue instead of his father, and continued to give a discourse every Shabbat for fifty years. He became world famous as "one of a generation" in his knowledge of the revealed and hidden and was renowned for his great holiness. He wrote Rav Pe'alim, Torah Lishma, Ben Ish Chai, Ben Ish Chayil, Ben Yehoyada, Od Yoseph Chai, Leshon Chachamim, Aderet Eliyahu, Chasdei Avot etc.
2 pages, 13.5 cm. Very good condition.
