The Remarkable Literary Output of the Ben Ish Chai - On His Yahrtzeit י"ג אלול

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Today, you're giving a little as a yard site of the great going Sadiq Makubal Hasid of Rabbi Yosef Haim of Baghdad, the Ben Ish Hai. One of the outstanding achievements of the Ben Ish Hai among many of his accolades and greatness was his almost supernatural literary output. Rabbi Yosef Haim, the Ben Ish Hai, on Shabbat and Yom Tov, he was Makadesh many Hadushim Derek Limudai. As the Zohar Kadush speaks at great length of the great value of being Makadesh Torah on Shabbat. And when the Ben Ish Hai had a Hadush on Shabbat as testified by his grandson, Haham David, in the introduction to his safer on Tehillim, that when the Ben Ish Hai would say Tehillim on the Yomim Tovim on Shavuot or Rosh Hashanah, and many very often he would have

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1. 0:00Today, you're giving a little as a yard site of the great going Sadiq Makubal Hasid…
2. 0:32on Shabbat and Yom Tov, he was Makadesh many Hadushim Derek Limudai. As the Zohar Kadush…
3. 1:02Hadushim, he would place Zaroinim seeds as a Siman in that place so that he would…
4. 1:32researched by a great great nephew that in certain instances the words were actually found on…
5. 2:03Hakohen here. You should see in this uh safer. This is the one of the official…
6. 2:34impose a shvu'a on the pen to write supernaturally, even that cannot account for the Ben…

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