Sepher Chukei Chaim [responsa]

GAGIN, CHAIM ABRAHAM

Israel Bak

Jerusalem

1842

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Jerusalem 18; Halevy 9

Includes much information relating to the social history of the Jews in 19th-century Erertz Israel. The author (1787-1848) was Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and the first to carry the official title of Haham Bashi. He was the son-in-law of the Kabbalist Shalom Sharabi. The author was instrumental in the publication of manuscripts by other major Rabbinical scholars and kabbalists; for example, Kedushath Yom Tov by the Mahrit Algazi (See Lot 7). See also the introduction by Gagin to his father in-law’s work, Divrei Shalom (See Lot 284) where he defends his use of the title Haham Bashi