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Manuscript of novelties in the handwritten of Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer, the owner of the "Ka'f HaChayim"

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02.15.2023 07:00pm

The very holy manuscript of the Gaon HaMekubal, the "Ka'f HaChayim" - Rabbi Ya'akov Chaim Sofer, innovations on the Parashat "V'zot HaBracha" from his book Yismach Yisrael on the Torah. 16 pages in his holy handwriting.

In the pages, among other things: an explanation about Etz HaDa'at, G-d's promise to the holy ancestors, the blessing of the son, the path to reach the Torah, and the merit of studying the Torah, an explanation of the 613 Mitzvos against the person's body parts, the matter of the angel who accompanies a person in doing the mitzvah, that thanks to the Torah study, the people of Israel will win the coming of the Redeemer, and more.

The Ga'on Rabbi Ya'akov Chaim Sofer [1867-1939] - Born in Baghdad and studied Torah with the greatest of the city, he was ordained as a teacher by the Ba'al ben Ish Chai and Learn from him Torah and Kabbalah. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1904. In 1909 he established, together with Rabbi Yechezkel Ezra HaLevi, his Chavruta, the Shoshanim L'David Synagogue, where he Sermon on Shabbat and Yom Tov. He studied and wrote his books in the attic of the synagogue (now it is Ezrat Nashim). Later, he joined the Kabbalah students at the Rehovot Ha-Nahar Yeshiva, where he was a student of Rabbi Chaim Shaul Hacohen Dweik. For nearly forty years, from the age of thirty until his death, he was writing his great work "Caf Hachyim" on the Shulchan Aruch.

[16] written pages. Very good condition.

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257. Manuscript of novelties in the handwritten of Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer, the owner of the "Ka'f HaChayim"