Auction 44

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Chiddushei kabbalah handwritten and signed by the kabbalist of Baghdad, Rabbi Shimon Aharon Agassi.

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Leaf handwritten with likkutim from the Zohar and other works of kabbalah, handwriting of the Chacham Shimon Aharon Agassi, successor of the Ben Ish Hai. On the back is his handwritten signature. In one place he writes: “Inside, leaf 13, recto, the writer Haim said”, in other words he quotes something written in a book which he was editing. Maybe referring to the Ben Ish Hai. Size: 10×19.5cm.


The kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Agassi ben Rabbi Aharon was a gadol of Baghdad who was in close contact with the Ben Ish Hai and corresponded with him on halacha and Aggadah. After his death he was Chief rabbi and the Jews there revered him. Among his students was the kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Patya (see what he wrote about him in the introduction to his book Beit Lehem Yehuda).

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