A handwritten leaf, Torah novella on the Tractate Avot. Autographic writing by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad author of Ben Ish Chai. Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad author of Ben Ish Chai and dozens of other important books (1833-1909), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim ben Rabbi Moshe Chaim Rabbi of Bagdad. Disciple of Rabbi Abdullah 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 "one of a generation" in his knowledge of the revealed and hidden Torah. Some of his books: 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, section in the middle of an issue.
A handwritten leaf, Torah novella on the Tractate Avot. Autographic writing by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad author of Ben Ish Chai. Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad author of Ben Ish Chai and dozens of other important books (1833-1909), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim ben Rabbi Moshe Chaim Rabbi of Bagdad. Disciple of Rabbi Abdullah 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 "one of a generation" in his knowledge of the revealed and hidden Torah. Some of his books: 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, section in the middle of an issue.
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