page_title: Abraham Hayyim Adadi
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Abraham Hayyim Adadi / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of title page of Vayikra Avraham (1865) by Abraham Hayyim Adadi
context_page_description: Abraham Hayyim Adadi was a Sephardi Hakham, dayan, av beit din, and senior rabbi of the 19th-century Jewish community of Tripoli, Libya. In his younger years, he lived in Safed, Palestine, and traveled to Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa as a shadar to raise funds for the Safed community. He returned to Safed a few years before his death and was buried there. He published several halakhic works and also recorded the local minhagim of Tripoli and Safed, providing a valuable resource for scholars and historians.
context_section_description: Adadi was recognized as an expert in Talmud study, displaying an understanding of both the text and the historical differences between the writings of the Tannaim and Amoraim. He also recorded the history and minhagim (customs) of the Jewish communities of Tripoli and Safed in his books, providing a valuable resource for scholars and historians. In his first work, HaShomer Emet (1849), he included a poem that he had written in praise of the city of Safed.
  His main works are:
  HaShomer Emet (The True Guardian), on the laws and customs of writing a Torah scroll. Published 1849 in Livorno, reprinted together with Vayikra Avraham in 1992 in Brooklyn, New York.
  Vayikra Avraham (And Abraham Called), responsa on the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch. Published 1865 in Livorno, reprinted 1983 in Jerusalem. Appendices in this work include Sdeh Migrash on divorce and Yosef Amar, a description of Libyan Jewish customs.
  His handwritten manuscripts containing Talmudic novellae and drashot (sermons) are preserved at the Yad Ben Zvi institute in Jerusalem.
caption: Title page of Vayikra Avraham (1865)
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