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Rabbi Hanania Habib Azoulai (Jerusalem, 1876 - Casablanca, 1935) served as rabbi of the city of Liege in Belgium, Moz of the city of Constantine in Algeria and Rosh yeshiva the "Mekor Chaim" in Casablanca, Morocco.

biography
Rabbi Hananiah was born in Jerusalem (then part of the Ottoman Empire) to a Sephardic family attributed to the "Hida". He studied in the Sephardi Yeshivas in Jerusalem and especially under his distinguished rabbi, Rabbi Raphael Yitzchak Israel, who served as the father of the Sephardic court in the city.

His mission in France
Rabbi Hananiah planned to return to Jerusalem, but at the request of Rabbi Zadok HaCohen, the Chief Rabbi of France, he settled in Paris and began teaching at the Israelite Seminary of France. Rabbi Hananiah taught in the beit midrash for about ten years until the year 1908 He fell ill and his doctors advised him to leave Paris because the weather there harms his health and makes it difficult for him to recover. Following the doctor's recommendations, Rabbi Hanania immigrated to Belgium.

Rabbi of Liege
After immigrating to Belgium, Rabbi Hanania was appointed rabbi of the Jewish community in Liege, the third largest city in the country. During his tenure as the rabbi of the city, although he created connections and abundance among the community leaders, Rabbi Hanania rarely engaged in controversial matters but focused on studying the Torah. For example, he wrote in the letter he sent For Rishon Lezion Rabbi Moshe Franko in the year 1903 "I am stationed here in a holy community in Liege, Belgium. And thank God all the greats of Europe are open to my discipline, and I don't interfere at all and most of all in any of the matters that cause the lifting of honor and refinement and convulsion or discord, God forbid only

In the Torah of God I desire, for it is part of all my labor".

During his stay in Europe, Rabbi Hanania was in correspondence with the sages of Jerusalem on matters of Halacha and more.

After the rabbinical position there became vacant, Rabbi Hanania ran for the position but lost to Rabbi Moshe Meir Chai Eliakim of Tiberias. In the year 1922, Rabbi Hanania participated in the founding of a periodical called "Or Hamarab". Unlike other periodicals at that time, the language of this periodical was The Arabic-Jewish language spoken by the Jews of Casablanca and other regions in Morocco. The Arabic-Jewish language where the Jews of Casablanca and other regions of Morocco spoke. Thus the speakers of Jewish Arabic could keep up to date with what was going on with their Jewish brothers in other countries, and thus the relationship between Moroccan Jews and members of other ethnicities was strengthened.

His activity in North Africa
At the end of the month of Nissan in the year 1917, Rabbi Hanania immigrated to the city of Casablanca in Morocco. The yeshiva included a Zohar study for homeowners.

Below is a list of Rabbi Hanania's books and a brief description of them-

In the year 1924, Rabbi Hananiah left Casablanca for a certain period, and moved to Tunisia, for the purpose of printing his books. While he was in Tunis, Rabbi Hananiah lived in the house of Rabbi Moshe Haddad in the town of Nabeul, near the capital Tunis, and studied with the sages of the community in the midrash schools in Navel and Tunis. Rabbi Hananiah He established contacts with many of the sages of Tunis and especially with the chief rabbi of Tunis, Rabbi Moshe Shatrog.

During his stay in Tunis, he became aware of a halachic controversy that arose in the community of Casablanca after his departure. Rabbi Hanania took an active part in the polemic and wrote a comprehensive answer on the subject, and even won the support of some of the scholars of Morocco. It is true that there were Moroccan sages who objected, such as Rabbi Moshe Meir Chai Eliakim who published a book called "milhemet hamagen" in which he very strongly disagreed with Rabbi Hananiah's conclusions.

After his stay in Tunisia, Rabbi Hananiah moved to Algeria and served as a Posek of the city ofConstantine. During his tenure in Constantine, Rabbi Chaim Rosenberg, the rabbi of the city of Ancona in Italy, who was engaged in researching the writings of the "Hida", approached him and asked Rabbi Hananiah what the exact genealogy chain was between the "Hida". A to Binu, and asked Rabbi Hanania for help in obtaining manuscripts of the "Hida".

After his tenure as Posek In Algeria, Rabbi Hananya returned to Casablanca to once again head the "Mekor Chaim" yeshiva.

the rest of his life
in the year 1932 Rabbi Hanania went on another visit to Europe in order to finance the printing of his books. During his stay in Paris, Rabbi Hanania fell ill and was hospitalized in a hospital in the city. He was released from the hospital On February 1, 1932. From France Rabbi Hanania continued to London where he stayed for a certain period and was a co-founder of a magazine called "HaZion". After the end of his journey, Rabbi Hananiah returned to Casablanca and continued to preside over Yeshiva Makor Haim until his death On July 13, 1935.

Some of the documents and letters in Rabbi Hanania's possession were donated by his heirs to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, where they were gathered in a collection called "The Hanania Habib Azulai Collection".

his family
His father's name is Joseph. His mother's name is Esther And around the months of December 1912-January 1913 she lived in the shelter for the poor of the Western sect in Jerusalem until her death on August 13, 1913. Both were buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem. Rabbi Hanania Habib had two older sisters: one, Aziza, who was born on the day 13.02.1865 And she married Shalom Dahan and was also buried in the Mount of Olives cemetery next to her father Rabbi Yosef Azulai The second sister was Rachel who was born in the month of Cheshan in the year 1868.

Rabbi Hanania and his wife Rachel had two sons - Shalom and Nissim Shimon. In 1930, the wedding of Shimon Nissim, son of Rabbi Hanania, was held in Casablanca

In 1940, his son Nissim Shimon remarried Simcha 'Simi' Kadosh, daughter of Rabbi Shlomo Kadosh, the darshan of the city of Marrakesh.

his books
In the year 1897, Maharil Diskin appointed Rabbi Hanania to serve as Meshulach in the Jewish communities in France. After the death of Maharil Diskin, when Rabbi Hananiah was already in France, a dispute arose between the Sephardic community and the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem regarding the use of the money collected by Rabbi Hanania. When Rabbi Hanania heard that his mission was causing controversy among the various denominations and communities in Jerusalem, he decided to retire from his position as Meshulach.

Rabbi Hanania Habib Azoulai (Jerusalem, 1876 - Casablanca, 1935) served as rabbi of the city of Liege in Belgium, Moz of the city of Constantine in Algeria and Rosh yeshiva the "Mekor Chaim" in Casablanca, Morocco.


 * Mora Tzedek - a book of questions and answers about the order of the Shulchan Aruch. Part I was printed in Djerba in 1924, with the consent of Rabbi Moshe Shatrog. Rabbi Hanania wanted to print the three additional volumes of his book in Germany, and for this purpose an 8-page booklet was printed in Berlin in 1926, containing recommendations from eight German rabbis for Rabbi's book Hanania.
 * Magen Hadat - printed in 17.3.1925, in the "Hatzioni" printing press on the island of Djerba in southern Tunisia. The book was approved by Rabbi Moshe Satrog, the chief rabbi of Tunisia. At the top of the book was printed Rabbi Hanania's answer regarding the Hayboom controversy in Casablanca. And then some articles written by Rabbi Hananiah with the aim of "establishing an Oleh of Torah and raising the horns of religion and faith that have been humiliated to the land in the cities of the West in general and the cities of Tunis in particular" . In these articles, Rabbi Hanania offered several suggestions for improving the situation in the communities of North Africa. Among his proposals are regulations and rules to regulate the procedures for electing community rabbis, and a detailed and uniform curriculum for the Torah Talmuds and midrash schools in the various communities.
 * Olam Ketan - a counter containing the obituary that Rabbi Hanania delivered in the Great Synagogue in Tunis on Shabbat Chai Sara 685, (1924) on the passing of Rabbi Yehuda the Little, who was one of the wisest and wealthiest of the Jewish community in Tunis. The counter was printed together with the Magen Hadat book. The Little, the son of Rabbi Yehuda the Little.
 * Kiryat Hana - a book of sermons. Part I was printed in the year 1926 in the city of Sousse in southern Tunisia. The book was approved by Rabbi Moshe Shatrog, the chief rabbi of Tunisia, and Rabbi Michael Ben Said, the rabbi of the city of Wahran in Algeria. Since during this period Rabbi Hananiah served as rabbinate in Algeria and could not come to the printing place in Tunisia and supervise the printing of the book, Rabbi Hananiah appointed Rabbi Shmuel Taib, Rabbi of the city of Nazareth to deal with arranging the book and bringing it to print. Rabbi Shmuel Taib also wrote a poem and an introduction to the book in which he describes and praises the book. In each of the sermons, Rabbi Hananiah opens with a sage article and during the sermon he engages in his commentary. In the introduction to the book, Rabbi Hananiah writes that the book will contain 620 sermons, but the first part (which is probably the only one that was printed in the end) contains only the first 96 sermons and the rest is probably left in handwritten form.
 * Uran Shel hahamim - Commentary on Shulchan Aruch Orach Haim and Yore Deah. Not printed but left in manuscript . Mentioned with the consent of Rabbi Moshe Shatrog in the book of Kiryat Hana.
 * One of his manuscripts dated May 9, 1918 was found among the writings of the Gaon Rabbi Mishleh of Mazuz and was printed in the book of remembrance "Ve'avio Shamar" in 2007. Printed in part two, mark three.
 * In addition to these books, there are two other short essays in the Hanania Habib Azoulai collection in the National Library - a halachic response written in Tunis in 1925, in which he discusses whether it is permissible to make medicine from the grape seeds of Gentiles, and a sermon on matters of repentance, delivered by him in Casablanca on Yom Kippur in the year 1930.

biography

 * Rabbi Hanania Habib Azoulai, Magen Hadat, Djerba, 1925, on the HebrewBooks website.
 * Rabbi Hanania Habib Azoulai, Kiryat Hana, Susa, 1955, on the HebrewBooks website.
 * Moshe David Gaon, "Hanania Habib Azulai", Jews of the East in the Land of Israel Part II century, Jerusalem, 1938, p. 34, on the Hiberbox website
 * Hanania Habib Azoulai archive, in the National Library of Israel.
 * Chacham Hanania Habib Azoulai, on the "Daily Chacham" website.
 * Hanania Habib Azoulai, cover page in the National Library of Israel.