Auction No. 50 It will be held on Wednesday the 10th of the Shevat 5782 • 12.01.2022 • At 19:00 Israel time
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LOT 069:
“That man should know that the torments are for his own good” – an excerpt from a drash handwritten by the Reish ...
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“That man should know that the torments are for his own good” – an excerpt from a drash handwritten by the Reish Galuta of Bavel, the Ben Ish Hai. Daf segula
Segulah: a leaf handwritten by Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim ben Eliyahu – the Ben Ish Chai of Baghdad.
From a drash in which he explicates on the verse: “If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.” (Deuteronomy 32:29), that man should know that the torments are for his own good. He also explicates on the yetzer harah that the tzaddik turns the evil into good.
Approx 11x13cm. Written on both sides of the leaf, overall good condition.
Rabbi Yosef Chaim (1835-1909), the Ben Ish Hai, was Rabbi of all the Diaspora, one of the greatest leaders, accepted and settled in all generations. Born in Baghdad to his father Rabbi Eliyahu [ Rabbi Moshe Chaim - who is mentioned in the sermon before us.] At the age of only 14, he was accepted to the meeting of Rabbi Abdullah, despite his young age. For over fifty years he led the Baghdad Jewish community, received many questions, In the book "Most Blessings, " Rabbi Ezekiel Moshe Halevy wrote in the introduction: "If Rabbi Yosef Haim tells me about the Right who is the Left, and the Left who is the Right, I will follow his words. Indeed, he published many books, with more than 100 essays [!], Have earned them a place of honor in the Jewish bookcase.
Not all of our rabbinical writings have come to light in print and in recent years have worked hard at many institutes, especially the Ahavat Shalom Institute. In light of the world, the teachings of the rabbis, and the many poems of which he became known and "said so vividly" in honor of the Divine Tana Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai accepted in all the Diaspora of Israel. His coffin was placed in Baghdad, where he was laid to rest. It is generally accepted that because of our rabbi’s desire to immigrate to the Holy Land, he body immigrated to Israel after his death, according to testimony from the Jerusalem kabbalists, the location of his grave is on the Mount of Olives
