Auction 14 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Handwritten Leaf by Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim Author of Ben Ish Chai – With Blessing

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Manuscript of Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Chai. Chiddushim on Aggadic sayings in Chulin tractate. Complete passages. Content printed with variations in language in his book Ben Yehoyada on Chulin tractate. See attached material.
Blessing following first passage: “G-D shall forever assist and guard us, Amen”.
Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad author of Ben Ish Chai and dozens of other important books (1833-1909), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim son of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Rabbi of Bagdad. Prominent disciple of Rabbi Abdallah Somech. After the death of his father in 1859, at age 26, he delivered a sermon in his stead in the Great Synagogue, thereafter he spoke there every Shabbat for fifty years. He was famous worldwide as "single in his generation" in his knowledge in the revealed and concealed facets of Torah. Some of his books: Rav Pe’alim, Torah Lishma, Ben Ish Chai, Ben Ish Chayil, Ben Yehoyada, Od Yosef Chai, Chasdei Avot and more.
[1] Leaf. 9.5X30 cm. Written on both sides. Good condition.
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