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Yosef Hayyim
Native name
יוסף חיים מבגדאד
Born
(1834-11-01)1 November 1834
Died
30 August 1909(1909-08-30) (aged 73)
Yosef Hayim (1 September 1835 – 30 August 1909) (Iraqi Hebrew: Yoseph Ḥayyim; Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד) was a leading Baghdadi hakham (Sephardi rabbi), authority on halakha (Jewish law), and Master Kabbalist. He is best known as author of the work on halakhaBen Ish Ḥai (בן איש חי) ("Son of Man (who) Lives"), a collection of the laws of everyday life interspersed with mystical insights and customs, addressed to the masses and arranged by the weekly Torah portion.
Yosef Hayim (1 September 1835 – 30 August 1909) (Iraqi Hebrew: Yoseph Ḥayyim; Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד) was a leading Baghdadi hakham (Sephardi rabbi)...
טהורות) and Beit Avraham (Hebrew: בית אברהם) on Arba'ah Turim and Beit Yosef. Hayyim was born in the year 1753–1754 in Jerusalem, and migrated to Rhodes...
cover all areas of Sephardi Halacha observance. Ben Ish Chai, by Rabbi YosefHayyim, a Sephardi work of Halakha incorporating Kabbalistic teachings. Kaf...
(yarṣayt or yarṣyat), Ladino, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Tajik, and Judeo-Tat. YosefḤayyim of Baghdad notes a once-common false etymology of the word as a Hebrew...
Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq. He studied the Torah under Abdallah Somekh and the YosefHayyim. In 1904, he journeyed to the Ottoman Palestine together with colleagues...
is Ibn Gabirol's neo-Platonic Fons Vitae ("The Source of Life;" "Mekor Hayyim"). Thought by many to have been written by a Christian, this work was admired...
Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Yitzhak Zerachia (1724 – 1 March 1806) (Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי), commonly known as the Hida (also spelled Chida, the...
Kabbalist the Vilna Gaon; and - amongst others - from the 19th/20th-century: YosefHayyim author of Ben Ish Hai. With the 16th-century rational systemisation of...
learning Kabbalah while still in his teens. He was a child student of Rabbi YosefHayyim and studied at the Zilka Yeshivah in Baghdad. He moved to the British...
Dayan Haham Abraham Hillel Haham Simon Aghassi Haham Iacob (son of Haham YosefHayyim) Haham Iehuda Aftyia Baghdad and its vicinity possess a certain number...
Bialik was born in Radi, Volhynia Governorate in the Russian Empire to Itzik Yosef Bialik, a wood merchant from Zhytomyr, and his wife, Dinah Priveh. He had...
and stories in Judeo-Tajik Moshe Halberstam, rosh yeshivas Tschakava YosefHayyim, Baghdad-born rabbi and posek known as the Ben-Ish Hai (disputed) Yitzchok...
inquired as to the rationale behind the observance of Isru Chag, Rabbi YosefHayyim (1832–1909), known as the Ben Ish Chai, cited the famous Kabbalist Rabbi...
Joseph ben Ḥayyim Hazan was a Sephardi ḥakham and chief rabbi of Jerusalem. Joseph Hazan was born at Smyrna in 1741 and died in Jerusalem on November 11...
Yitzchak Abadi, Sefer Hasidim (who prohibits even when wearing gloves), and YosefHayyim. Rabbi Feinstein gives the benefit of the doubt to those who return a...
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (Hebrew: יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), was the author of the last great...
ha-Golah). Yehoyada and MeKabtziel (names based on 2 Samuel 23:20) by YosefHayyim "the Ben Ish Chai". Beur Aggados (Clarification of the Aggadot) and Perush...
died on ZaKh Menahem Av in Jerusalem. He was the main student of the YosefHayyim and was also a student of Hakham Shimon Agassi. Yayin haReqa`h is a commentary...
been the teacher of Ḥayyim Shabbethai and Shabbetai Tzvi, whom later he excommunicated. Escapa wrote an important work called Rosh Yosef, a detailed commentary...
since it was outlawed by the Nazis in 1933. 13 Elul (1909) – Death of YosefHayyim 14 Elul (1983) – Birth of Shlomo Rafuel Ben Moshe Dovid 15 Elul (1964)...
rosh yeshiva, Somekh was teacher of several Sephardi sages including YosefHayyim ("Ben Ish Chai"), and Yaakov Chaim Sofer ("Kaf HaChaim"). He issued a...
Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (also "Yaavetz") (1438 – 1539) was a Spanish-Jewish theologian. He lived for a time in Portugal, where he associated with Joseph...
mysterious, possibly including Todros Abulafia or his son Yosef, Yosef of Hamadan, Yosef Gikatilla, Yosef Angelet and others, arguably stronger and more influential...
Food. Oxford University Press. pp. 424–425. ISBN 978-0-19-967733-7. YosefHayyim (1986). Sefer Ben Ish Ḥai (Halakhot) (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Merkaz ha-sefer...
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