page_title: Jacob Rakkah
hierarchical_section_title: Jacob Rakkah
caption_attribution_description: עברית: ספר שערי תפילה
context_page_description: Jacob Rakkaḥ, also spelled Raccah, was a Sephardi Hakham in the 19th-century Jewish community of Tripoli, Libya. He was a well-known posek for Sephardi Jews, a rosh yeshiva, and author of approximately 40 sefarim, some of which were published during his lifetime.
context_section_description: Jacob Rakkaḥ (Hebrew: יעקב רקח, Yaakov Rakkaḥ) (1800 – 3 March 1891), also spelled Raccah, was a Sephardi Hakham in the 19th-century Jewish community of Tripoli, Libya. He was a well-known posek (arbiter of Jewish law) for Sephardi Jews, a rosh yeshiva, and author of approximately 40 sefarim, some of which were published during his lifetime.
caption: Title page of Shaarei Tefilla by Rabbi Jacob Rakkaḥ
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