A report on Haredi Judaism and Ovadia Yosef
Yosef's responsa were highly regarded within Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, among whom he was regarded as "the most important living halakhic authority".
- Ovadia Yosef3) The second wave began in the 1970s associated with the religious revival of the so-called baal teshuva movement, although most of the newly religious become Orthodox, and not necessarily fully Haredi. The formation and spread of the Sephardic Haredi lifestyle movement also began in the 1980s by Ovadia Yosef, alongside the establishment of the Shas party in 1984. This led many Sephardi Jews to adopt the clothing and culture of the Lithuanian Haredi Judaism, though it had no historical basis in their own tradition. Many yeshivas were also established specifically for new adopters of the Haredi way of life.
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Agudat Yisrael
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Agudat Yisrael (אֲגוּדָּת יִשְׂרָאֵל, lit., Union of Israel, also transliterated Agudath Israel, or, in Yiddish, Agudas Yisroel) is a Haredi Jewish political party in Israel.
Rabbi Shach had earlier assisted Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef in splitting from Agudah to create a Sephardic Haredi party known as Shas.
Shas
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Shas (ש״ס) is a Haredi religious political party in Israel.
Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader until his death in October 2013, it primarily represents the interests of Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Jews.
United Torah Judaism
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United Torah Judaism (יהדות התורה, Yahadut HaTora), often referred to by its electoral symbol Gimel, is a Haredi, religious conservative political alliance in Israel.
Later, Shas broke with Rabbi Shach, as it adopted its own independent political stance under Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Halakha
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Collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah.
Haredi Jews generally hold that even minhagim (customs) must be retained, and existing precedents cannot be reconsidered.
Yalkut Yosef, by rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, is a voluminous, widely cited and contemporary work of halakha, based on the rulings of rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920 - 2013).
Independence Day (Israel)
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National day of Israel, commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.
The innovation was strongly denounced by his Sephardic counterpart, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America.
Most Haredim make no changes in their daily prayers.