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Chaim Abraham Gagin
image attributed to Chaim Abraham Gaguine
Personal life
Born	1787 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	23 May 1848(1848-05-23) (aged 60–61) Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Jewish leader
Predecessor	Yehuda Navon
Successor	Yitzhak Kovo

Chaim Abraham Gagin (1787–1848) was Chief Rabbi of Ottoman Palestine from 1842 to 1848.

He was the grandson of the Jerusalem Kabbalist Shalom Sharabi. He was author of Sepher Hatakanoth Vehaskamoth, a compendium of Jewish religious rites and customs as practiced in the City of Jerusalem.

In the years 1831-1840, the muslims in the Land of Israel were persecuting the Samaritans to either convert to islam or die, claiming that the Samaritans due to not being either Jewish or Christians were "idol worshippers" and therefore must be killed. The Samaritans asked Gagin to help them, and he wrote a document that the Samaritans are a "Jewish sect" to save them from extermination after many of them were forced to convert to islam.

References

1. ^ "Chaim Abraham Gagin. Sepher Hatakanoth Vehaskamoth". Kestenbaum & Co. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
2. Westreich, Elimelech (2012). "Jewish Judicial Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Jerusalem: Background, Jurisdiction, Structure". Jewish Law Association Studies. 22: 303. ISSN 0890-7552.
3. Isaac Ben-Zvi, "The Book of the Samaritans", 19353 Pp.36.

• 19th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire
• Rabbis from Istanbul
• 1787 births
• 1848 deaths
• Sephardi rabbis from Ottoman Palestine