Rabbi Yitzchak Abi'hssira, "Baba 'Haki"

A work about the personality and exceptional magnanimity of Rabbi Yitzhak Abihssira, nicknamed "Baba Haki", whose memory is still present in the hearts of many Jews in Israel.

It was in Rissani, in the Moroccan region of Tafilalet, that our master was born in 1895. Of illustrious lineage, he is the brother of "Baba Salé" and the grandson of the scholar par excellence, Rabbi Ya'akov Abi'hssira.

Following a journey of more than a quarter of a century that began in 1920, he arrived in Eretz Israel in 1948. Endowed with a rare charisma and an erudition recognized by his
peers, he was immediately appointed Rav of the cities of Ramle and Lod.

An unparalleled builder, he fought tirelessly until his last penny to ensure that the Torah, its values ​​and its representatives were respected in a country still new and searching for its identity.

His unquenchable love for every Jew, whether pious or uneducated, made him the natural representative of North African Judaism. His tireless struggle for the establishment of religious schools, places of study and prayer, is the origin of hundreds of Sephardic institutions that flourish today in Israel.

Baba 'Haki died on April 2, 1970, in a tragic road accident...

This book was compiled by his son Rav Chimon Abi'hssira, director of the "Ner Itshak" Yeshiva in his father's name.


* 395 pages
* Softcover