Yosef Hayim (1 September 1835 – 30 August 1909) (Iraqi Hebrew: Yoseph Ḥayyim; Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד; or Yosef Chaim) was a leading Baghdadi hakham (Sephardi...
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Joseph Chaim Brenner (Hebrew: יוסף חיים ברנר, romanized: Yosef Ḥayyim Brener; 11 September 1881 – 2 May 1921) was a Hebrew-language author from the Russian...
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Yosef ben David Renassia (Hebrew: רבי יוסף גנאסיא, November 19, 1879–1962) was a Jewish rabbi, soldier, translator, educator, writer, preservationist...
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(yarṣayt or yarṣyat), Ladino, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Tajik, and Judeo-Tat. Yosef Ḥayyim of Baghdad notes a once-common false etymology of the word as a Hebrew...
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cover all areas of Sephardi Halacha observance. Ben Ish Chai, by Rabbi Yosef Hayyim, a Sephardi work of Halakha incorporating Kabbalistic teachings. Kaf...
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Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq. He studied the Torah under Abdallah Somekh and the Yosef Hayyim. In 1904, he journeyed to the Ottoman Palestine together with colleagues...
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since it was outlawed by the Nazis in 1933. 13 Elul (1909) – Death of Yosef Hayyim 14 Elul (1983) – Birth of Shlomo Rafuel Ben Moshe Dovid 15 Elul (1964)...
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Kabbalist the Vilna Gaon; and - amongst others - from the 19th/20th-century: Yosef Hayyim, author of the Ben Ish Hai. With the 16th-century rational systemization...
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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...
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