Auction 14
Lot 064:
The handwriting of the text’s author! 26 pages with erasures, corrections, and additions between the lines. Pages are 23cm. The author lived from 1870-1939, was born in Baghdad (Babel), a student of Rabbi Abdallah Somech and Rabbi Yosef Haim, the Ben Ish Hai. Was a sage of Baghdad and Jerusalem, and one of the great poskim, author of a series of books called Kaf HaHayyim. His entire life he focused on studying Torah and writing his composition in an attic of the Shoshanim L’David synagogue in Jerusalem, which was founded by the Ben Ish Hai. He wrote a number of additional books, “Hayyim Ad HaOlam” on the ends of masechtot, “Kol Yaakov” on halachot of Stam script, “Khakei Haim” with drashot for various times. “Yigal Yaakov” with chiddushim on the Torah. This book has moisture stains on a number of pages. The pages are newly bound in handsome binding with gilded inscriptions, generally good condition.
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