Aderes Eliyahu. First Published sefer of the Ben Ish Chai! First Edition. Livorno 1864.

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Aderes Eliyahu. First Published sefer of the Ben Ish Chai! First Edition. Livorno 1864.

Commentary of the Ben Ish Chai on the weekly Torah portions.

This is the first of many published seforim of the Ben Ish Chai, printed when the Ben Ish Chai was just 29 years old. The sefer was warmly received by many of the greatest leaders of Sephardic Jewry including the aged R. Chaim Palagi, who in one of his last seforim quotes and highly praises the sefer and its author.

Rabbi Yosef Chaim (1835-1909), was born in Baghdad, where his father, Chacham Eliyahu Chaim, was one of the distinguished rabbinical figures. His extraordinary talents were evident from a young age. He initially studied in his father’s library and at the age of ten he began to study with his uncle Rav David Chai Ben Meir, who later founded the Shoshanim L’David Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Upon the passing of Chacham Eliyahu Chaim, the Jews of Baghdad appointed the Ben Ish Chai to fill his father’s place as the leading rabbinic scholar of Baghdad, despite the fact that he was only twenty five at the time. He was widely accepted as a great authority on Jewish law throughout the Middle East, and his decisions were considered to be authoritative even outside Sephardic communities. Acknowledged as a leading Chacham and a great Kabbalist, he was greatly revered by Sephardim and Ashkenazim, scholars and laymen alike. A prolific writer, he authored over thirty works, among them his most famous work, Ben Ish Chai as well as halachic responsa Rav Pe’alim. His Ben Yehoyada and Benayahu, a commentary on the Talmud, is a basic sefer in understanding Aggada.

Eliyahu Ben Amozag press.

Size: 25 cm. 

Pages: 174, [1].

Condition: Fine condition, tight binding.