Sdei Chemed-Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini-Judaica fine art Jewish oil Painting Reproduction

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This is a Museum quality, hand painted oil reproduction, painting of   "Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini"
Also known as Sdei Chemed.

Chaim Hezekiah Medini, (born 1833, Jerusalem – died 1904, Hebron), also known as the Sdei Chemed - the title of his chief halakhic work - was a rabbinical scholar during the nineteenth century.

Born in Jerusalem to his father, Rabbi Raphael Eliahu Medini, and mother, Kalu Vida. He married his first wife Rivka at the age of eighteen, and studied Torah under the Rishon L’Tzion (Sephardic Chief Rabbi) Yitzchak Kubo and Rabbi Joseph Nissim Burla, the head of the Jerusalem rabbinicl court. He received his ordination (semichah) at the age of nineteen. His father's sudden death in 1853 compelled Rabbi Chaim Chizkiyahu to move to Constantinople. He was offered a position on the rabbinical court but refused, preferring to tutor children to earn a livlihood.

When travling Jewish merchants from the Crimea offered him the rabbinate there, he accepted and moved to Kara-Su-Bazar (modern day Bilohirsk), in Crimea, where he served from 1867 until 1899.

In 1889 Medini returned to Palestine, staying at first in Jerusalem. Upon hearing that he was that he was suggested as Rishon Litzion, Chief Rabbi, he moved to in Hebron in 1891, hoping to be allowed to study in peace. However, shortly after his arrival Hevron's two major Torah scholars, Rav Eliyahu Mani and Rav Yosef Franco, passed away, and a search for a new chief rabbi of Chevron had begun. At first, Rav Chaim Chizkiya rejected all offers but eventually relented and served as chief rabbi there until his death in 1904.

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