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	Hakham Yossef Hayyim ZT"L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hakham Yossef Hayyim was born in Baghdad on September 1,1834, where he died on September 6, 1909 at the age of 75.
		Hakham Yossef Hayyim went twice on a pilgrimage to the tomb of the prophet Yehezqel in the village of Kafil (Tshefel), 17 hours away from Baghdad.
		The Yom Hillula of Morenu Rabbenu Hakham Yosef Hayyim 'a"h was commemorated at a special event held by Midrash Ben Ish Hai on 13 Elul 5759, the 24th August 1999 in New York.
	isfsp.org /sages/hayyim.html (1627 words)

	Jewish History of Romania
		In 1719 a hakham bashi, Bezalel Cohen, was first appointed for Walachia and Moldavia by the suzerain, the sultan.
		The hakham bashi's function was hereditary and included the right of collecting taxes on religious ceremonies and contributions from every head of a family—comprising 30,000 taxpayers altogether in the two principalities in 1803—as well as conferring exemption from taxes and tolls.
		The growing Russian and Galician element in the Rumanian Jewish population at the beginning of the 19th century opposed the hakham bashi, since such an institution was unknown to them and many of them were followers of Hasidism and led by zaddikim.
	www.porges.net /JewishHistoryOfRomania.html (12392 words)

	NITLE Arab World Project
		For Ottoman Jews, religious leadership was vested in the hakham bashi, or chief rabbi.
		The first hakham bashi of Jerusalem, for example, was appointed in 1841, and the first hakham bashi of Baghdad received his berat (patent of office) eight years later.
		Originally, the hakham bashi in Istanbul was recognized by the Turkish authorities as both the chief religious authority (rav ha-kolel) and temporal chief (shaykh zamani).
	arabworld.nitle.org /texts.php?module_id=6&reading_id=54&sequence=2 (1326 words)

	Baghdadi (Iraqi) Synagogues in Bombay and Poona, India
		Zuhair Shaul Hakham Sassoon, and grandson of Rabbi Khedourie, spoke on behalf of the author, who was seated on the dais.
		For 37 years he was Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi) and head of the community.
		His period of service for the community was replete with problems, persecutions, and tribulations, in comparison with the relatively quiet times when his predecessors held as the leaders of the community.
	www.babylonjewry.org.il /new/english/nehardea/12/ml.htm (1300 words)

	Karaims in Turkey
		Another member of the family, Samuel Beghi, served later as Hakham and met during the Passover of 1642 the pilgrim Samuel ben David.
		In 1772 Simba ben Solomon from the Crimea became Hakham of Istanbul.
		Late in the nineteenth century and early in the twentieth, the community of Istanbul was still regarded as possessing men of learning, and four of the Hakhamim of Cairo came from there.
	www.turkiye.net /sota/karatur.html (710 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Romania
		The hakham bashi's function was hereditary and included the right of collecting taxes on religious ceremonies and contributions from every head of a family — comprising 30,000 taxpayers altogether in the two principalities in 1803 — as well as conferring exemption from taxes and tolls.
		The growing Russian and Galician element in the Romanian Jewish population at the beginning of the 19th century opposed the hakham bashi, since such an institution was unknown to them and many of them were followers of Hasidism and led by zaddikim.
		Because of strife among the diverse groups of Jews and their complaints to the authorities, the hakham bashi system was abolished in 1834.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/romania.html (14922 words)

	Hakham Yosef Hayim - Ben Ish Hai
		However, one distinguished Rabbi, Hakham Moshe Hayyim (1752-1837) became the founder of a very noble and very learned family.
		He wed the second stone from the mount of olives by a craftsman who had etched out upon it a facsimile of the Kotel flanked by two cypress trees, was set apart to be buried alongside him when the time came.
		Seven days of public mourning were decreed by the Jewish leaders and eulogies delivered by many Rabbis, among them the Hakham Bashi R. Moshe Shamash, Hakham David Papo, Hakham Sasson Israel, Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor, Hakham Shimon Aghassi and Hakham Yosef Sharin the emissary of Jerusalem.
	www.midrash.org /articles/hyh (1118 words)

	The Jews of Aleppo
		The community was governed by the hakham bashi, or chief rabbi.
		The hakham was distinguished by the size and color of his turban and the long-wide sleeves of his outer garments.
		While it was customary for everyone to wear an ankle-length robe with a sash around the waist, the hakham bashi was a government official and wore a finer robe with ceremonial orders and medals, and gold and silver embroidery.
	www.jewishgen.org /SefardSIG/AleppoJews.htm (6944 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 35 Number 38
		The "national" rabbi (Hakham Bashi=Rishon l'Zion) was Sefaradi because most of the Jews were.
		Rather than remove the Hakham Bashi and install R. Kook, who was the natural candidate for Chief Rabbi, the Jewish community chose the divided position, and local positions were also divided in this way.
		Until R. Ovadiah's revolution began to have its impact and the Sefaradi community (coincidentally) produced a significant number of major figures who could hold their own with the Ashkenazim, a unified rabbinate would have ensured that non-Ashkenazim would have been even more underrepresented in the rabbinate than they were in other prestigious positions.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v35/mj_v35i38.html (1777 words)

	Diaspora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This file is a record of some of those Exilarchic leaders, resident in various locales under varying legal and social circumstances.
		The institution of the Hakham Basi was established by Mohammed the Conqueror, as part of his policy of governing his exceedingly diverse subjects according to their own laws and authorities wherever possible.
		Because of the size and nature of the Ottoman state, the Hakhamei immediately became the pre-eminent Exilarchs among Levantine Jewry; for previous Exilarchs, see the Resh Galuta.
	ellone-loire.net /obsidian/Diaspora.html (5330 words)

	The Hakim Family Home Page - Centennial Memorial
		He was appointed as "Haham Bashi" in Safed by the Sultan, and served as such until his death in 1897.
		Later on the years, after his son Raphael was ordained as a Rabbi, the position of Hakham Bashi was offered to him.
		The community leaders refused to accept his conditions, and therefore he decided not to accept the position, and instead became a teacher and a Hazan.
	webstazy.com /press.html (1059 words)

	Rabbi Yossef Hayyim - The Ben Ish Hai Z'tsl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From 1882 (before the brothers were imprisoned), R. Yossef took upon himself a seven-year period of fasting daily from dawn to dusk, during which he did not leave his house, even to deliver his usual lectures.
		In 1909, just six months before he passed away, he was offered the position of Rishon LeTzion and Chacham Bashi over all the Sephardic communities in the Holy Land.
		Rav Yossef Hayyim was survived by a son, Rav Yaacov Hayyim, who inherited his father's position until his death in 1920 CE, and by a daughter.
	isfsp.org /sages/hayyim2.html (2431 words)

	Yad Ben-Zvi
		In 1899, while dealing on the Huleh Valley land concession, the map served the Land Registry in Beirut and was in use in Palestine when the concession was dealt with again by the British authorities in 1922–1925.
		1889–1891 when his father filled the post of Hakham Bashi (chief rabbi) for the cities of Acre, Haifa, Safed, and Tiberias.
		The episodes in question are three separate cases in which Jewish women came to Acre in order to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men.
	www.ybz.org.il /?ArticleID=631 (1671 words)

	The Jews of Iraq
		In 1849 both positions were united in a Hakham Bashi (Chief Rabbi).
		Under Ottoman rule the head of the community was ex-officio Treasurer (Sarraf Bashi) of the country.
		This tradition was continued in the early years of modern Iraq when Sir Sasson Heskel held the Finance Ministry in several governments.
	www.dangoor.com /74034.html (1701 words)

	Jewish History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The title was taken from the words Hakhan (chacham) meaning sage and Bashi meaning head.
		Ostensibly he served as the chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire or of parts of it.
		Often the Hakham Bashi himself was not sufficiently learned to also serve as a Halachic authority.
	www.jewishhistory.org.il /1830.htm (1358 words)

	Community Leaders
		Born in Baghdad in 1907, to Meir and Mariam Raby, he was the second cousin of Meso'uda Hillel (nee Raby), the wife of Hakham Abraham Hillel, who was three times the "Hakham Bashi" of Iraq, during the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
		During the fifties and early sixties, Dr. Raby used to be consulted by the head of the Iraqi Jewish community at the time, Hakham Sasson Khedoury, on matters that related to the welfare of the community.
		For example, in policy decisions related to running the Frank Iny School, Dr. Raby's approach used to be that the school's principal at the time, Abdullah Obadiah, had already a proven record in bringing the education's level of the Jewish students to the highest standard in Iraq.
	www.iraqijews.org /commlead.html (1883 words)

	A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
		I feel privileged that through her I am a descendant from numerous Rishonim LeZion (Chief Rabbis of Palestine also known as Hakham Bashi).
		I had met many times the then Chief Rabbi of Egypt, Grand Rabbin Haiim Nahoum Effendi, as he was officially called (Effendi is an honorific title given to very few people we want to honor, a title they earn).
		Rabbi Nahoum was the former Grand Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire, the Hakham Bashi.
	www.sefarad.org /publication/lm/043/13.html (1202 words)

	Hakham Bashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2 List of individuals holding the title Hakham Bashi
		[edit] List of individuals holding the title Hakham Bashi
		This page was last modified 15:45, 3 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hakham_Bashi (324 words)

	Aspects of Babylonian Jewsih Life - Midrash BEN ISH HAI newsletter page 2
		During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Iraq was first under Ottoman rule (until 1917), then under the British Mandate (until 1932), the Kingdom of Iraq (until 1958) and finally, the Republic of Iraq.
		It is of interest that the family was known by the name Mnashshi-Zbeida, after Hasqel’s wife, Zbeida, who had continued her husband’s philanthropic work (Melamed 1995:185) and managed the family business in Baghdad, during his long absence in Calcutta (A. Manasseh, p.c.).
		The Midrash Bet Zilkha was headed by the great Hakham 'Abdallah Somekh (1813-1889), one of his students being the future undisputed spiritual head, Hakham Yosef Hayyim (c.
	www.midrash.org /babylonian/newsletters/archive09/page2.html (706 words)

	Romania
		a hakham bashi, Bezalel Cohen, was first appointed for Walachia and Moldavia by the suzerain, the sultan.
		The hakham bashi's function was hereditary and included the right of collecting taxes on religious ceremonies and contributions from every head of a family—comprising 30,000 taxpayers altogether in the two principalities in
		the prince of Moldavia decided that the hakham bashi should have jurisdiction only over "native" Jews.
	www.oberman.org /romania.htm (15971 words)

	Manisa (Magnasia), Jewish Community
		He was sent by the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris to Abyssinia to investigate the history and the costums of the Jews there.
		From 1908 till 1920 he had the function of Hakham Bashi of Turkey.
		In 1925 he was elected Chief Rabbi of Egypt, a post he held till his death in 1960.
	www.sephardicstudies.org /manisa.html (567 words)

	15398 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The hakhamkhana (the seat of the rabbinical court) was in the approximate area of my Jewish sector and our Chief Rabbi Hakham Sason Kaduri wielded his authoritarian power from that large magnificent building of stone.
		Jews, according to this theory, should wait for the arrival of the Messiah who will serve as a divine agent in the hands of God in order to restore the Third Temple in Jerusalem, bring the scattered Jews to the land of Israel and establish peace on earth.
		Later on, we children came to understand that beyond the religious argument was the need for the Hakham Bashi not to provoke the Iraqi government at the time when Iraqi troops were fighting the Zionists in Palestine.
	www2.xlibris.com /Bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=15398 (6524 words)

	Jews from Baghdad, Iraq - Escape in 1970
		Although many disasters fell upon the Jewish community, both manmade and natural, the Jewish presence in Iraq remained strong until it was finally made part of the Ottoman Empire by the Turks in 1534.
		At the turn of the 20th century, towards the end of the Ottoman rule, the leadership of the Jewish community changed from that of a Nassee, or President, to that of Hakham Bashi, or Chief Rabbi.
		The defeat of the Ottomans led to the British Mandate that created the nation of Iraq after World War I. At the time, Jews constituted 2.3% of the national population, but 25% of the population of Baghdad, where they dominated the imports and exports of the country.
	www.samba.co.il /iraqijews/herdoon.html (11069 words)

	Research Authority: 62 - Research Profile page
		'The Importance of the Archive of the Hakham Bashi in
		Harel, Y. "The Relationship Between the Jewish Community of San'a and Sphardic Hakham Bashi Yishak Sha'ul" [in Hebrew].
		Harel, Y. "The Ousting of the Hakham Bashi Sasson Ha-Levi as an Indidcator of Social Struggles in the Jewish Community of Bagdad" [in Hebrew].
	research.biu.ac.il /?p=1&no=56Harel,Yaron (672 words)

	Sediton
		Through his advice, the Hakham [rabbi], called Sa?id, was hastily sought
		consenting, the Hakham replied with a refusal; the nobles spoke in vain, he
		[?] The Bostangi Bashi [guardian in chief of the Sultan Mustafa III], is
	members.tripod.com /joe_matalski/Pages/Sedition.html (9872 words)

	Rabino - CanalSocial - Enciclopedia GER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A éstos, por su parte, se les designa con el título de: discípulos de los sabios (talmidé hakhamim), entendiendo que la palabra sabio (hakham) es un sinónimo de rabino.
		XI, según el testimonio de Judah ben Barzilai (llamado Al BardeIon¡, el Bardelonés), en España se volvió a la costumbre de entregar un certificado de aptitud a los alumnos del Talmud más eminentes para que pudieran llevar el título de rabbi, de hakham (sabio) o de rab.
		Finalmente en Turquía, desde el tiempo de Mohamed II, el conquistador de Constantinopla, el hakham bashi representaba ante el sultán a todos los judíos del Imperio Otomano.
	canalsocial.net /GER/ficha_GER.asp?id=11655&cat=religionnocristiana (1295 words)

	Acidophilus Related Terms
		Under Constantin BrÃ¢ncoveanu, Wallachian Jews were recognized as a special guild in Bucharest, led by a starost.
		Jews in both Wallachia and Moldavia were subject to the Hakham Bashi in IaÅŸi, but soon the Bucharest starost assumed several religious duties.
		Wallachian Jews obtained valuable privileges during Nicholas Mavrocordatos' rule (1716-1730) in that country (the Prince notably employed the Jewish savant Daniel de Fonseca at his court).
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania (5571 words)

	A pope with no believers [Israel's chief Rabbi] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Renewed Jewish sovereignty has failed in establishing a sacred institution whose authority is accepted by everyone, Friedman adds.
		That there are always two chief rabbis - one the Sephardi reincarnation of the Ottoman Empire's hakham bashi, and the other of the Ashkenazi post set up by the British - reflects the absurdity of any claims to ultimate authority.
		Even the iconic first Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook, admired as he was by Agudat Yisrael's haredi rabbis, was undermined by them from the outset, says Friedman.
	209.157.64.200 /focus/f-religion/1281619/posts (2150 words)

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