Yalkut Yosef and Related Topics

Halakha

Collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah.

Sefer Torah at Glockengasse Synagogue (museum exhibits), Cologne

Hasidim walk to the synagogue, Rehovot, Israel.

A mixed-gender, egalitarian Conservative service at Robinson's Arch, Western Wall

An illuminated manuscript of Arba'ah Turim from 1435

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).

Ovadia Yosef

Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

Ovadia Yosef as a child with his family.

6) Yitzhak Yosef, (b. 1952) is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, also known as the Rishon LeZion, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and the author of a popular set of books on Jewish law called Yalkut Yosef.

Yitzhak Yosef

Yitzhak Yosef (יצחק יוסף, born January 16, 1952) is the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (known as the Rishon LeZion), the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and the author of a set of books on halakha (Jewish law) called Yalkut Yosef.

Toledot HaPoskim, History of the Jewish Codes, by Chaim Tchernowitz.

Posek

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.

Yitzhak Yosef (1952- ), Chief Sephardic Rabbi of the State of Israel, author of the set Yalkut Yosef

Shulchan Aruch

Most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Judaism.

The Ben Ish Chai, Kaf Ha'Chaim, and much more recently, the Yalkut Yosef are similar works by Sephardic Rabbis for their communities.

Yeshiva

Traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel.

A typical bet midrash – Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Baltimore

Chavrusas in study – Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret

Morning seder, Or-Yisrael - a yeshiva founded by the Chazon Ish

Shiur in memory of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein at Yeshivat Har Etzion, a Hesder yeshiva

A depiction of Sura (from Beit Hatefutsot)

Volozhin yeshiva, “mother of the yeshivas”

Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, now a national monument

The Breslov Yeshiva in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem.

Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, New Jersey – largest yeshiva outside Israel.

"Cheder"-class in Talmud, Tel Aviv, 1946.

Gemara, the first page of tractate Rosh Hashanah

Chavrusas learning beki'ut, recording their summary of each sugya alongside its Mishnah

Cover of the first edition of Mesillat Yesharim.

In Sephardic yeshivot, the Shulchan Aruch itself is more commonly studied, along with the Bet Yosef commentary; the Yalkut Yosef and Kaf Hachaim are also often studied, while Ben Ish Hai is a standard reference.