A report on Ovadia Yosef and Mordechai Eliyahu
Eliyahu worked for the preservation of the Iraqi Jewish rite and the opinions of the Ben Ish Hai, and opposed the attempts of Ovadia Yosef to impose a uniform "Israeli Sephardi" rite based on the Shulchan Aruch and his own halakhic opinions.
- Mordechai EliyahuThe rulings of the Ben Ish Chai were at the heart of the disagreement between him and the Chief Rabbis Yitzhak Nissim and Mordechai Eliyahu.
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Ezra Attiya
1 linksOne of the greatest teachers of Torah in the Sephardic Jewish world during the 20th century.
One of the greatest teachers of Torah in the Sephardic Jewish world during the 20th century.
Among Attiya's most famous students are Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul, and Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri.
Porat Yosef Yeshiva
1 linksSephardic yeshiva in Jerusalem, with locations in both the Old City and the Geula neighborhood.
Sephardic yeshiva in Jerusalem, with locations in both the Old City and the Geula neighborhood.
Mordechai Eliyahu, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Ovadia Yosef, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Posek
0 linksTerm in Jewish law for a "decisor", a legal scholar who determines the position of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
Term in Jewish law for a "decisor", a legal scholar who determines the position of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Yabbia Omer
Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010)
Sadqa Hussein
0 linksSephardi dayan, mohel, and spiritual leader to the Iraqi Jewish community in Iraq and Israel.
Sephardi dayan, mohel, and spiritual leader to the Iraqi Jewish community in Iraq and Israel.
One time in the 1950s, he asked his student Mordechai Eliyahu to arrange a meeting for him with Grand Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, who was visiting Jerusalem at the time.
In 1933, Hussein persuaded the father of a 12-year-old Ovadia Yosef to send his son to the Porat Yosef Yeshiva.
Israeli disengagement from Gaza
0 linksThe unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Israeli settlers and army from inside the Gaza Strip.
The unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Israeli settlers and army from inside the Gaza Strip.
On August 10, 2005, in response to calls from Jewish religious leaders, including former Chief Rabbis Avraham Shapira, Ovadia Yosef, and Mordechai Eliyahu, between 70,000 (police estimate) and 250,000 (organizers' estimate) Jews gathered for a rally centered at the Western Wall in prayer to ask that the planned disengagement be cancelled.
List of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel
0 linksThis list of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel documents the rabbits who served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community in the Land of Israel from the mid-17th century to present.
This list of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel documents the rabbits who served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community in the Land of Israel from the mid-17th century to present.
Ovadia Yosef (1973–1983)
Mordechai Eliyahu (1983–1993)
Siddur
0 linksJewish prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.
Jewish prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.
These siddurim follow the halakha of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013) a Talmudic scholar, and authority on Jewish religious law, and spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party.
Kol Eliyahu, ed. Mordechai Eliyahu