Sadqa Hussein

Sadqa Hussein

Sadqa Hussein (Hebrew: צדקה חוצין; in Ashkenazi Hebrew: Tzadka Chutzin; February 3, 1876 – February 17, 1961) was a Sephardi dayan, mohel, and spiritual leader to the Iraqi Jewish community in Iraq and Israel. He taught thousands of students in Baghdad, and led the Iraqi expatriate community in Jerusalem. He was the founder and rosh mesivta of the Shemesh Sedaqah Synagogue in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem.Sadqa Hussein was born in Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq, to Rabbi Moshe Hussein, and grew up in a prosperous family. He was a fifth-generation descendant of the 18th-century rabbi Sadqa Bekhor Hussein, the author of the halakhic responsa Sedaqah U-Mishpat. In his youth, he studied at Midrash Bet Zilkha, the foremost yeshiva of its day, under the tutelage of Rabbi Elisha Dangour, Av Beit Din of Baghdad. He later studied under the Ben Ish Hai, who would count him among his favorite students. Hussein's financial situation allowed him to pursue his studies uninterrupted, allowing him to achieve a high degree of Torah scholarship. Wikipedia

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