The Remarkable Literary Output of the Ben Ish Chai #Shorts

Today, you're giving a little as a yard site of the great going Sadiq Makubal Hasid of Yosif Haim of Baghdad, the Ben Ish Hai. One of the outstanding achievements of the Ben Ish Hai among many of his accolades and greatness was his almost supernatural literary output. A Rabbi Yosif Haim, the Ben Ish Hai, on Shabbos and Yom Tov, he was Makadesh many Kadushim Derek Limudai. As the Zera Kodesh speaks at great lengths of the great value of being Makadesh Torah on Shabbos. And when the Ben Ish Hai had a Chiddush on Shabbos, as testified by his grandson, Chacham David, in the introduction to his safer on Tehillim, that when the Ben Ish Hai would say Tehillim on the Yamim Tovim, on Shavuos or Rosh Hashanah, and many very often he would have Chiddushim, he would place Zaroinim seeds as a siman in that place so that he would be able to come back to it and refer back to it. And then immediately after the Shabbos or Yom Tov, he would quickly, with great seriosness, record the Chiddushim that he had. The Ben Ish Hai would write beyond the point of utter exhaustion. There are certain instances where we have his manuscripts and then there are words missing. And then it was researched by a great great nephew that in certain instances the words were actually found on the side of the page, on the side of the book. Because the Ben Ish Hai continued to write beyond exhaustion, so even when he dozed off, his hand would continue to write. Furthermore, the great Makubal, Rabbi Ephraim HaKohen, who was a Ben Bayis by the Ben Ish Hai. I'll show you a picture of Reb Ephraim HaCohen here. You should see in this uh safer. This is the one of the official biographies of the Ben Ish Hai under the auspices of Reb Yaakov Hillel. He would say that the swiftness with which the Ben Ish Hai would write was that the page didn't even have time to dry by the time he finished it and it needed to be spread out to dry. Says Reb Ephraim HaCohen, "Even Hashba'as HaKolmos, which is a mystical technique to impose a shvu'a on the pen to write supernaturally, even that cannot account for the Ben Ish Hai's literary output. It was only in through his Siyata Dishmaya that he was zocheh to the middah gedolah in an extra helping of Siyata Dishmaya." So, this is Kussai Yogein Aleinu Ve'al Kol Yisrael, Amen.