His father was Rabbi Abraham HaKohen, who belonged to a famous family of Kohanim, descendants of Yosef HaCohen from Spain.
[citation needed] As a child, while his classmates spent their free time playing, Chaim went to the synagogue to study Torah, and to learn how to serve God.
[citation needed] HaKohen served the Aleppo community as rabbi and head of the rabbinical court for decades.
As time passed and the book did not appear, Rabbi HaKohen decided to travel to Venice, and personally oversee its printing.
[citation needed] Rabbi HaKohen spent several years in Italy, rewriting his lost books.
[citation needed] The first book that he was able to print, with the help of Moses Zacuto, was entitled Torat Chacham (The Teaching of the Wise).
The Talmudic commentaries on the Berachot treatise were published in the Israeli monthly publication Qobets Bet Aharon ve Israel, in 1983.