[Avodah] Tu B'Shevat - Pri Eitz Hadar

[Shoshana L. Boublil]

> From: "M Cohen" <mcohen at touchlogic.com>
> Subject: [Avodah] Tu B'Shevat - Pri Eitz Hadar . yemach shmo on a Jew
> 
> The reliablility of the book Chemdat Yamim has been discussed on Avodah
> before.
> I was unaware that the sefer Pri Eitz Hadar is of the same source (see
> below)
> Is this well known? (true?)



[SLB writes] Rabbi Rakah ZT"L, one of the Gedolim of the Libyan community
prepared the book Pri Etz Hadar.

You can find the issue of using this book on Tu Bishvat in the following
d'var yomi from Rav Ovadya Yosef:

http://www.halachayomit.co.il/DisplayRead.asp?readID=363

I couldn't find a biography of Rabbi Rakah ZT"L, but he was a known Gadol
and here is an example of a shu"t concerning Rabbi Rakah's shu"t on Tefilla:

http://ravsharki.org/content/view/719/741/

Shoshana L. Boublil