Auction 41
Lot 165:
Lot of 5 copies of books from the kabbalist Rabbi Avraham Hai, with many notes and name references for prayers. All of them show clear signs of use, between the pages are other documents/bookmarks/kvitlach.
1. Ma’agal HaShana, a seder Kiddush and blessings for holidays and shabbatot.
2. Emek HaMelech, a kabbalistic composition from Rabbi Naftali ben Rabbi Yaakov Elchanan of Frankfurt; facsimile, limited edition, Jerusalem, based on the Amsterdam 1653 edition.
3. Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, with the exegesis Bayit HaGadol
4. Ma’aseh Nissim, pirkei avot with commentaries, Jerusalem 1972.
5. Yalkut Lekach Tov, chapters for belief and security. Rechasim 1993.
The kabbalist Avraham Chai (1920-2016), known as the Tzaddik of Pardes Katz, was born to his father Shaul and his mother Mrs. Masuda in 1920 in Baghdad, Iraq. In 1951, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was put in the immigrant transit camp in Kfar Ono. From there he moved to the Pardes Katz neighborhood of Bnei Brak, where he served as a metalworker. Many of the greatest sages came to visit him, among them Rabbi Yehuda Ze’ev Leibowitz (next to whom he was buried), the sage Shimon Chirari, and the Steipler – Rabbi Israel Yaakov Kanievsky, with whom he studied in Chevruta.
Hakham Avraham Hai was well versed in Kabbalah. People came to his home from all sides of the spectrum, Sephardim and Ashkenazim, to consult him and receive his blessings. He headed the Beit Midrash, which he established in the Pardes Katz neighborhood, and then from his home on HaShinayim Street in the neighborhood, which became a spiritual beacon for all the residents of the neighborhood. Hakham Avraham Hai was humble, easy-going and very far from being meticulous and angry. He would fast often and would follow a tikkun Sheva Hakafot on the Shovevim days. Chacham Avraham Chai passed away on the 29th of Av, 5766 (2016) and was buried in the Ponevezh Bnei Brak cemetery.
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