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A Simple Jew (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Sefer Baal Shem Tov - Landsberg DP Camp, 1948 When I asked my friend Nochum, who has learned Toldos Yaakov Yosef for many years, how he approached learning this extremely difficult sefer, he responded: "My advice if you want to enter the world of the Toldos is to learn a lot of Sefer Baal Shem Tov al Hatorah , and go back and forth using his extensive footnotes. After a few years of that...
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Rav Yaakov Yosef Shlita, a son of Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita, issued a statement in an interview in the weekly “Eretz Yisroel Shelanu” that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will one day pay for his actions. The Rav was responding to a question if he is aware to what is happening to the prime minister. “Yesh din v’yesh [...]
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A Simple Jew (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
(Chart courtesy of rashi900.com) Dixie Yid and I were recently having a discussion via e-mail in which he told me that he bought the new printing of Toldos Yaakov Yosef with an excellent commentary. I replied that I had bought another printing of this sefer since it was in regular block letters and not in Rashi script. Although I have taught myself Rashi script in the past, without regular...
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
... of prominent Gedolei HaDor, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, the son of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita, and Rav Yaakov Yosef, the son of Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita, are working against the odds to unite the parties for the common good, to give religious voters a serious powerbase, seeking to stop the current reality in which frum parties must seek the mercy of their secular colleagues.According...
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Dreaming of Moshiach (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The following are the words of :"Moshiach is not promoting himself. He is not saying, 'I am the Moshiach, give me the leadership.' Rather the nation is pushing him to lead them, after they find [in my words] signs showing that he has the status of Moshiach."The following report is earthshattering and exactly just as Rav Kaduri, zs'l, predicted...Both sons of the greatest Rabbanim; Maran Ovadia Yosef...
