Auction 14
Lot 062:
Drasha which is 12 pages in length, handwritten by the Gaon Maran Rabbeinu Yosef Haim, the Ben Ish Hai. On the first page is a discussion of a ruling by two dayanim (erasures handwritten by the Ben Ish Hai). 5 pages of introduction with a drash on the Ten Days of Repentance. “And here I wrote in my little book Ben Ish Hai, parshat Pikudei…” “After the coming over the Messiah, quickly in our time amen, there will be a blessing in Israel that the nations will work for you and no business will be necessary…” with additional exegeses in kabbalah. Seven additional pages have a drasha for Elul and the importance of the Ten Days, “May we all be saved by Hashem and be pure.” As is known, in the four shabbats of the year—Shabbat Tshuva, Shabbat Zachor, Shabbat HaGadol, and Shabbat Kala (the Shabbat before Shavuot), thousands of the Jews of Baghdad would gather at the Great Synagogue of the city, which had 10,000 seats (Tzalat al-Kabri), and would hear drashot of Rabbi Yosef Haim. 6 pages with 12 columns, around 20 lines per column. Throughout the manuscript are erasures and corrections by his holy hand. Bound in new, handsome leather, with gilded inscriptions. Light tears at the top of the first page without damage to the text, generally good condition.
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