Judaica IMREI BINA Jerusalem 1908 by Rabbi Yosef Hayim of Baghdad, SIGNATURES

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Judaica IMREI BINA Jerusalem 1908 by Rabbi Yosef Hayim of Baghdad, SIGNATURES :
$199.00

Rare First Edition by the Rabbi Yosef Chaim Ben Eliyahu, the Ben Ish Chai.
Has many Sephardic Rabbinical signatures and manuscripts.
Very good condition.
Yosef HayyimYosef Hayyim
יוסף חיים מבגדאדYosef Chaim of Baghdad,
author ofBen Ish HaiBorn1 November 1835
Baghdad,IraqDied30 August 1909(aged 73)
Mosul,Iraq

Yosef Chaim(1 September 1835 – 30 August 1909) (Iraqi Hebrew:Yoseph Ḥayyim;Hebrew:יוסף חיים מבגדאד) was a leading law), and MasterKabbalist. He is best known as author of the work on HalakhaBen Ish Ḥai(בן איש חי) (\"Son of Man (who) Lives\"), a collection of the laws of everyday life interspersed with mystical insights and customs, addressed to the masses and arranged by the weeklyTorahportion.

Biography[edit]

He initially studied in his father\'s library, and, at the age of 10, he leftmidrash(\"school room\") and began to study with his uncle, RavDavid Chai Ben Meirwho later founded theShoshanim LeDavidYeshivainJerusalem. In 1851, he married Rachel, the sister of HakhamOvadia Somekh, his prime mentor. They had a daughter and two sons together.

When Yosef Chaim was only twenty-five years old, his father died. Despite his youth, the Jews of Baghdad accepted him to fill his father\'s place as the leading rabbinic scholar of Baghdad, though he never filled the official position ofHakham Bashi.The SephardicPorat Yosef YeshivainJerusalem, was founded on his advice by Joseph Shalom, ofCalcutta,India—one of Rabbi Chaim\'s patrons.

Chaim clashed with the reformist Bavarian Jewish scholarJacob Obermeyerwho lived in Baghdad from 1869 to 1880, and excommunicated him.[1]Part of the contention was due to Obermeyer and Chaim\'s conflicting views on promotion of theZohar.[2]

Works[edit]

The Ben Ish Chai (בן איש חי) is a standard reference in someSephardihomes (functioning as \"aSephardiKitzur Shulchan Arukh\") and is widely studied in Sephardiyeshivot. Due to the popularity of this book, Hakham Yosef Chaim came to be known as \"Ben Ish Chai\", by which he is referred to by many today.[citation needed]The book is a collection of homilies he gave over two years discussing the weeklyTorahportion. Each chapter begins with amysticaldiscussion, usually explaining how aKabbalisticinterpretation of a certain verse relates to a particularhalakha, and then continuing to expound on that halakha withdefinitive rulings.

Hakham Yosef Chaim authored over thirty other works, and there are many publishedIraqi ritesiddurim(prayer books) based on his rulings, which are widely used bySephardi Jews. Amongst the best known of his works are:

Ben Yehoyada(Ben Yəhoyadaʻ) andBenayahou: his commentary on theTalmud, considered a basic resource in understanding theAggada(narrative sections of the Talmud).
TheResponsa(Hebrew:She\'elot U-Teshuvot‎‎)Rav Pe\'alim(Rab Pəʻalim) andTorah Lishmah.

The namesBen Ish Chai,Me-Kabtziel,Rav Pe\'alimandBen Yehoyadaderive from2 Samuel23:20. He chose these names because he claimed to have been a reincarnation ofBenayahu ben Yehoyada(described asBen Ish Chayil, the son of a valiant man); the man in whose merit, it is said, both the first and secondHoly Templesstood.

Hakham Yosef Chaim was also noted for his stories and parables.[citation needed]Some are scattered through hishalachicworks, but have since been collected and published separately; others were published as separate works in his lifetime, as an alternative to the European-inspired secular literature that was becoming popular at the time. HisQânûn-un-Nisâ\'(قانون النساء) is a book filled with parables concerning self-improvement. The book, directed towards, but not limited to women, is rare since it was composed inJudeo-Arabic.[citation needed]It was last published in Israel in the 1940s.