Auction 8

Be’or HaHayyim, drashot on the Torah by the Kabbalist Rabbi Hayyim Kafusi, nicknamed the “Ba’al HaNess.” Jerusalem, 1929, rare.

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Drashot on the Torah, first published from his manuscripts by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Entebbe, and brought to the printers by Rabbi David Laniado. With endorsements of the rabbis of Egypt. At the end of the book is a pamphlet, “Imrei Yaakov,” by HaRav Entebbe, with a drasha in honor of the minister Moshe Montefiori. First edition of the book, that was put together by hand, hidden from sight until it was discovered by HaRav Entebbe. The Gaon HaChassid and Kabbalist Rabbeinu Haim Kafusi, one of the great thinkers and sages of Egypt 400 years ago, a student of the Ariza”l in the hidden wisdom, was a dayan in Egypt during the Radbaz. HaHida tells of him in his book Shem HaGedolim. Excellent condition.