Yemenite Rabbis - Yemenite Orthodox Rabbis, Shalom Sharabi, Yosef Qafih, Amnonyemenite Orthodox Rabbis, Shalom Sharabi, Yosef Qafih, Amnon Yitzhak, Yiyah Sala, Nethanel Ben Isaiah, Yiyah Qafi Yitzhak, Yiyah Sala, Nethanel Ben Isaiah, Yiyah Qafi (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Yemenite Orthodox Rabbis, Shalom Sharabi, Yosef Qafih, Amnon Yitzhak, Yiyah Sala, Nethanel Ben Isaiah, Yiyah Qafi, Shalom Shabazi, Hayyim Habshush, Alrashed Sahoubah. Excerpt: Sar Shalom Sharabi (Hebrew: ), also known as the Rashash, the Shemesh or Ribbi Shalom Mizrai deyedia Sharabi (Jewish Sharab, Yemen 1720 - Jerusalem 1777/(10 shevat 5537)), was a Yemenite Rabbi, Halachist, Chazzan and Kabbalist. In later life he became the Rosh Yeshiva of Bet El Yeshiva. He was one of the Jewish world's foremost masters of Kabbalah, Torah, Talmud and Halacha in the 18th Century, and one of the first Yemenite Jews to have a major influence on the wider Jewish world. He is now considered to rank among the Acharonim, to be the direct successor to the Ari and one of the most important Oriental Rabbis in history. Although he is primarily known as a Kabbalist, his rulings on Halakha (Jewish law) were and still are considered to have high authority, particularly among Yemenite Jews, but to some extent among Jews world wide. He was also a pioneer of Talmud Torah schools in Israel and Yemen, warrior on behalf of the Old Yishuv and a leading merchant in the Middle East. He was also a Jewish sexton for many properties in Jerusalem, Israel. Sharabi's son Rabbi Yitzhak Mizrai Sharabi (d. at Jerusalem in 1803) bore the same high reputation for piety as his father, whom he succeeded as Rosh Yeshiva of the Bet El Yeshiva. He was a talmid hakham (master scholar of the corpus of Torah and Talmud) and mekubbal (kabbalist), and was considered the leading authority among all the mekubbalim of his generation. Moreover, he was the head of the Jerusalem mekubbalim who were the leaders of the original Bet El Yeshiva (sometimes known as "Yeshivat ha-Mekubbalim") located in... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2294110