Rav Khalifa ben Malka zt"l
הרב כליפא בן מלכא זצ"ל
Elul 3 , 5520
Known As: of Agadir
Rav Khalifa ben Malka zt"l
Born around ה'ת"ל )1670 ) in Safi, Morocco. He was orphaned at a young age. He studied Torah in Chacham Rav Joseph Bueno de Mesquita's yeshivah in his hometown and later left his birthplace, wandering from city to city until he reached Fes, where he studied in Chacham Rav Yehuda Ben Attar and Chacham Rav Shmuel Hatzarfati's yeshiva.
Rav Joseph Bueno de Mesquita raised him as his own, sharing everything his wisdom, seforim and all his possessions. Eventually he moved to the city of Agadir in Southern Morocco. With the aid of his rebbe's nephew, Chacham rav Shlomo Ben Yeshurun he became a successful businessman. Together with Chacham Yaakov Gedalia they opened a spiritual center consisting of a shul and bais medrash, where Chacham Khalifa Ben Malka gave derashos and sat and studied Torah in Tallis and Tefilin. He originally wished to change his name and dreamed that his name was Asaf the same gematria as Khalifa.
His firstborn son, David, died at age eleven. Rav Khalifa Ben Malka himself passed away on 3 Elul, 5520 (1760).
Originally Rav Khalifa ben Malka's tzion was in the old bais haChaim where he was buried near his son Rav Avraham haNazir HY"D who died al kiddush Hashem and his brother in law Rav Shlomo Pinto (father of Rav Chaim Pinto, both these two tzadikim along with Rav Shlomo ben Shabbat and along with 5 other anonymous tzadikim, have been relocated by Rav Pinto to Kiryat Malachi, in Eretz Yisroel). On 5 Tammuz his grave was relocated and he was re-interred in the current location Cimetière Juif CCV2+VG Agadir, Morocco
He authored three seforim:
Kaf Naki – on the Siddur , Rach VaTov and Kol Rina.