Israel - Pair medals of Rabbi Yosef Haim and 70th Anniversary of the Chabad Yeshiva in the City of Hebron - Made of ...

Israel - Pair medals of Rabbi Yosef Haim and 70th Anniversary of the Chabad Yeshiva in the City of Hebron - Made of Silver

Rabbi Yosef Haim – HaBen Ish Chai

100th Anniversary of his Death

Official Medal 2009/5770

Third Medal in the "Jewish Sages" Series

Rabbi Joseph Haim from Baghdad (1834 – 1909) was a halachic ruler, kabbalist, leader and teacher and he was known as the "Ben Ish Chai", after his famous book.

He was leader of the Baghdad Jewish Community for 50 years, refusing any official capacity or salary in reward. The people admired him not only for his greatness in Torah, but also for his piety and righteousness, to the degree that he was looked upon as an angel with above human attributes.

He had a profound love for the Land of Israel and, in his writings and teachings, he emphasizes the holiness of the Land. In 1869, the Ben Ish Chai visited the Land of Israel and was received in great esteem. He concerned himself not only with spirituality in the Land of Israel but also with the materialistic needs of the poor in the Land and ensured that his books were printed there to help sustain the people.

The rich heritage of the Ben Ish Chai is written in his books and has been passed on orally from generation to generation. It has served as a code of life throughout the generations to the present day.

This is the official medal commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the death of the Ben Ish Chai.

Obverse: On the medal face, the likeness of Rabbi Joseph Haim from Baghdad.

Reverse: The design on the common reverse represents the wisdom and holiness that emanate from the works of our Jewish Sages over the generations. 

Israel - 70th Anniversary of the Chabad Yeshiva in the City of Hebron 1982 - Silver 935, 30g , 35 mm

Torat Emet in the city of Hebron, the Holy Land, was founded in 1901 by the Rashb Rebbe.

The first students arrived in the Holy Land on the 24th of Mr. Cheshvan in 1902, and arrived in Hebron itself four days later, on the 28th of March.

In a short sentence, which appears after twelve pages in which detailed instructions are given to the influencer and the students who immigrate to Hebron, the Rebbe writes: "The yeshiva is called 'Torat Emet'", and that is the name of the yeshiva in Jerusalem to this day. "

Initially, the studies took place in the new yeshiva in a two-story house (where a yeshiva called "Magen Avot Hebron" was previously established by Chabad followers from Hebron), while the sleeping place was set to be in the Chabad mansion in Beit Romano, but after a while they were transferred Studies at Beit Romano, too.

The group of the innocent, numbered seven: Rabbi Alter Shimchovitz, Rabbi Yechezkel Fagin, Rabbi Hillel Protkin, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Katsav, Rabbi Israel Zalman Asnas, Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Asherov, Rabbi Menachem (Naha) Karsik.

With the opening of the department in Hebron, more local students joined it, and the yeshiva in Hebron became an influential Torah institution and a center for Hasidism in general, and the Chabad Mishnah in particular.

The yeshiva was funded by the Rebbe and the Reich. The donations they received for the yeshiva, and funds they obtained through many efforts, were transferred through Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Eliezerov and others, for the yeshiva. Some argue that Rabbi Eliezerov and the people of Hebron managed the materiality of the yeshiva, while Rabbi Hablin was the spiritual director of the yeshiva.

The studies lasted for three years, until the end of 1941, when World War I broke out. The Turks, who then ruled the Holy Land, joined the war alongside Germany, and the students and influential citizens of Russia became citizens of an enemy country and were ordered to leave the country. Heblin was abroad at the time and returned to Israel a few years later and established the Torat Emet Yeshiva in Jerusalem.