Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Ben Elijah Stamp

This stamp was issued in April 1992, and features a portrait of the bearded, turbaned rabbi, who was leader of the Baghdad Jewish Community as also were his father and grandfather before him. From his youth, Rabbi Joseph Hayyim was a brilliant student of the Law and became extremely learned in the Torah and Kabbalah. As a preacher he held the attention of his audience. In his love for Palestine, the land of his fathers, he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1896, where he printed most of his books. His book Ben Ish Hai on Jewish Law is the most famous of his works. Other well-known works are Ben Yehoyad’a (5 volumes), containing commentaries on the legends of the Babylonian Talmud and Rav Re’alim, which is a work of Jewish legal research. He was greatly esteemed by Jewish communities all over the world in the influence and widespread admiration he aquired.

The stamp with an information sheet are enclosed in a plastic protection sheet.