- Hayim Palaggi
Hayim Palaggi or Palache ("MaHaRHaF" or "HaVIF", 1788,
Smyrna, Turkey – 1869, Smyrna) was a Turkishrabbinical author; maternal grandson ofJoseph ben Hayyim Hazan , author of "Hikre Leb"; pupil ofIsaac Gategno , author of "Bet Yitzhak". After serving as president of the tribunal in his native city, he was appointed "Hakham Bashi " there in 1854.His declining years were saddened by his deposition, although he was re-instated and held the position until the year before his death, and by disturbances among the people. He was held in great veneration by the masses; and at his funeral the hearse was escorted by a battalion of troops—an honor which has been shown by the Turkish authorities to two or three
chief rabbi s only.Works
Palaggi was a very prolific writer. Not counting twenty-six manuscripts which were lost in a fire, and a large number which are unpublished, he produced twenty-six works, most of them containing in their titles his name, "Hayyim". They are as follows:
*"Darche Hayyim 'al Pirke Abot" (Smyrna, 1821), commentary onPirke Avot ;
*"Leb Hayyim" (vol. i, Salonica, 1823; ii.-iii., Smyrna, 1874-90), responsa and comments on theShulchan Aruch ;
*"De-Rahamim le-Hayyim";
*"Semichah le-Hayyim" (Salonica, 1826);
*"Nishmat Kol Hai" (2 vols., ib. 1832-37), responsa;
*"Tsedakah Hayyim" (Smyrna, 1838);
*"Hikeke Leb" (2 vols., Salonica, 1840-49), responsa;
*"Tochahat Hayyim" (2 vols., ib. 1840-53), moral counsels and sermons;
*"'Ateret Hayyim";
*"Yimmatse le-Hayyim", prayers for different needs;
*"Nefesh Hayyim" (ib. 1842);
*"Torah ve-Hayyim";
*"Hayyim Tehillah";
*treatises on various subjects, and a eulogy of SirMoses Montefiore , with an appendix, "Derachav le-Mosheh", about theDamascus affair (ib. 1845);
*"Hayyim Derachav" (ib. 1850);
*"Hayyim la-Roshe";
*"Kaf ha-Hayyim", halachic rulings and morals;
*"Mo'ed le-Kol Hai", laws of the festivals;
*"Re'e Hayyim" (3 vols., ib. 1860);
*"Hayyim ve-Shalom" (Smyrna, 1862);
*"Katub le-Hayyim";
*"Sippur Hayyim";
*"Birkat Mordekai le-Hayyim" (ib. 1868);
*"Sefer Hayyim" (Salonica, 1868);
*"Ginze Hayyim" (Smyrna, 1872).Works since printed from manuscript
*"Refuat Hayyim", spiritual remedies for diseases;
*"Yismach Hayyim", on the significance of names;
*"Hayyim be-Yad", responsa.Bibliography
*Franco, "Histoire des Israélites de l'Empire Ottoman", pp. 198-202, 245;
*Hazan, Solomon, "Ha-Ma'alot li-Shelomoh", s.v.*Jewish Encyclopedia
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