Yehuda Fetaya (**Yehuda ben Moshe ben Yeshouah Fetaya**; 1859–1942) was a leading [Kabbalist](https://bliptext.com/articles/kabbalah) and authored many works of Kabbalah, among which three are well known, Yayin haReqah, Bet Lehem Yehuda and Minhat Yehuda.

Life

Yehuda Fatiya was born in Baghdad and died on ZaKh Menahem Av in Jerusalem. He was the main student of the Yosef Hayyim and was also a student of Hakham Shimon Agassi.

Works

Yayin haReqah is a commentary on the two [Idras](https://bliptext.com/articles/idra) of the [Zohar](https://bliptext.com/articles/zohar), Minhat Yehuda incorporates kabbalistic interpretation of Tanakh through his encounter with spirits, while Bet Lehem Yehuda, his major work, is the authoritative commentary on the [Sefer Etz Hayim](https://bliptext.com/articles/kabbalah-primary-texts) of [Isaac Luria](https://bliptext.com/articles/isaac-luria) and his student, [Hayim Vital](https://bliptext.com/articles/hayim-vital). Like many kabbalists, he practiced the [kavanot](https://bliptext.com/articles/kavanah) of [Shalom Sharabi](https://bliptext.com/articles/shalom-sharabi). Fatiyah was famous in Baghdad and later Jerusalem for being the uncontested master in the science of [kosher](https://bliptext.com/articles/kosher) Qameot (amulets) 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.