Yehuda Fatiyah

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Rabbi Yehuda ben Moshe ben Yeshou`ah Fatiyah, also pronounced Fetayah (1859-1942) was born in Baghdad and died on ZaKh Menahem Av in Jerusalem. He was the main student of the Ben Ish Chai. Rabbi Fatiyah was a Master Kabbalist and authored many works of Kabbalah, among which three are well known: Yayin haReqa`h, Bet Le`hem Yehuda and Min`hat Yehuda. The first work is a commentary on the two Idras of the Zohar, the latter incorporates Kabbalistical interpretation of Tanach through his encounter of Spirits, the second, his major work, is the autoritative commentary on the Sefer `Ets `Hayim of the Arizal and His student, the MaR`HOu. As is the case with all Orthodox Kabbalists, he practiced the kavanot of the Rashash. He claimed to have been a reincarnation of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau.

Rabbi Fatiyah was famous in Baghdad and later Jerusalem for being the uncontested master in the science of Kosher Qame`ot and their writing, in the science of Reincarnations and Spirits, together with Jewish Oneiromancy. To this day, the only proper amulets have their origin in his teachings, in his identification of their source. He also devoted much writing to the difference between dreams emanating from Heaven and from demons.[1][2]