Complete drash handwritten by the Kaf HaChaim.

Complete drash handwritten by the Kaf HaChaim.

Drash for Parshat Ki Tisa, written entirely by hand by Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer, author of the monumental work the Kaf HaChaim. A complete drash with words of mussar and agadot from chazal, quotes from gedolim of earlier generations, incorporating kabbalah and filled with encouragement for limmud zechut for the entire Jewish people.

14 pages in pretty, organized Sefardi script, with repairs to one leaf hiding a bit of text, light stains, very good condition. Around 14x21cm.

Rabbi Yaakov Haim Sofer (1870-1939) was born in Baghdad, was a student of Rabbi Abdallah Somech and Rabbi Yosef Haim (the Ben Ish Hai). He was a sage of Baghdad and Jerusalem and a gadol of the poskim, author of the series of works called the Kaf HaChayim. He spent his days studying Torah and writing his work in the attic of the Shoshanim L’David synagogue in Jerusalem, founded by the Ben Ish Hai, where he was saved miraculously during an earthquake in Jerusalem.

Besides being a posek hador in his time he was known as a miracle-working kabbalist and holy man, as Rabbi Yehuda Tzedakah testified: “Every Shabbos his shape would change unrecognizably!” He wrote additional works like Haim Ad Olam on the ends of masechtot, Kol Yaakov on halachot Stam, Chokei Haim with drashot for various times, Yagel Yaakov with chiddushim on the Torah.