THE SUPERNATURAL AUTHOR
Among the seforim Rav Chaim Palagi authored and printed is the well-known Kaf HaChaim on Orach Chaim and twenty-three other seforim in the realm of Halocha, fifteen on Medroshim and Derushim, nine on Chiddushim on Shas, Bavli and Yerushalmi, seven on Tanach including Tehillim, three on Mussar topics and many others. He conducted a Seudas Mitzva upon the printing of each sefer and never sold them, instead giving them as presents to Talmidei Chachomim. His first sefer was finished when he was just sixteen years old and his last was completed a day before he was niftar. Some people thought his gift in penmanship must be supernatural and through using divine Names, but his son Avrohom [whose famous photo is often mistaken for his father] testified, “My father’s fear and awe of Heaven, and his wisdom were much greater and stronger than any divine Name used to write with!” (Oros Mimizrach)
