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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, was a world renowned Talmudic scholar and authority on Jewish law.

Rav Ovadia Yosef, ZT”L – The Seforim Blog

He was the spiritual leader of the Shas Party in the Israeli Knesset. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef lived in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof with his wife and eleven children.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was born in Baghdad on September 23, 1920. In 1924 he immigrated to Jerusalem with his family.

As a teenager he studied at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva, where he advanced to the highest class taught by the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Ezra Attiya (1885-1970) one of the greatest 20th century teachers of Torah in the Sephardic Jewish world.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's life story - Meshiv Kahalachah

A story is told how Rabbi Attiya was instrumental in keeping the young Ovadia in Yeshiva. The diligent young scholar suddenly stopped coming to yeshiva. After several days, his teacher Rabbi Attiya became concerned and paid a visit to his home. He was shocked by the poverty he saw there. Ovadia's father explained that he ran a small grocery and n