To be sure, not one book can possibly encapsulate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s life or his impact upon the Jewish people. Biographical Portrait of Hacham Ovadia Yosef A”H Born on 12 Tishre ...

I spent the morning immersed in “Yabia Omer,” until the bitter news was announced: “Rav Ovadia Yosef has passed on to heaven.” He was 93. “Yabia Omer” is one of several halakhic books ...

Ovadia Yosef lived in a small, cramped apartment in which hundreds of books lined the walls and spilt across the tables and floors in precarious piles. He and his wife, Margalit Petel, had five ...

Shas’ spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, expressed on Wednesday his opposition to the controversial Torat Hamelech book, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported. “We should give considerable ...

“Hazon Ovadia,” in 1952. In 1970, the government awarded him the prestigious Israel Prize in recognition of his books. Yosef defeated a sitting chief rabbi in the 1973 election, itself a ...

JERUSALEMJERUSALEM — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the religious scholar and spiritual ... The author of dozens of books about Jewish law and practice, Yosef was a master of communicating with the masses.

Ovadia Yosef, an outspoken rabbi who combined religious ... and other groundbreaking decisions appear in the hundreds of books and articles that he authored, many of them based on lectures he ...