Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will recount it to thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. (Deuteronomy 32:7)
This organization shall be known as HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JEWS FROM EGYPT, and not of Egypt or of Egyptian Jews, but FROM EGYPT
Rav OVADIA YOSEF
"Rabbi Haim Ovadia Yosef: September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013)
Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف, translit. Abdullah Yusuf
"Restoring the Crown to its Former Glory"
(להחזיר עטרה ליושנה)
Rabbi Shimon Alouf commemorating the life of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Hacham Shimon Alouf is a senior renowned student of !e Rishon LeZion HaGaon
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. He is Morah D'atra of Congregation Ahaba Ve'Ahva in Brooklyn and a respected Posek (halachic authority) among the Syrian Jewish communities in New York. He is also the Rosh Yeshiva of the Sephardic Rabbinical College. Rabbi Shimon Alouf will be giving words of inspiration commemorating the Life of Hacham Ovadia Yosef A"H.
SephardicLegacy Published on Nov 27, 2013
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef First Row with the glasses and beard 1949 at the Ahaba ve Ahva Cong Cairo, Egypt.
Yeshivat Porat Yosef Class of 1939
TOP ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT) Rabbi BenSion Abu-Shaul , Rabbi Rabbi Sion Levy, Rabbi Yosef Ades , Rabbi Eliyahu Aboud.
MIDDLE ROW: (LEFT TO RIGHT) Rabbi Yosef Elnadav, Rabbi Eaphael Ades, Rabbi Abraham Shrem, Rabbi Ezra Ades, Rabbi Yoseph Raful, Rabbi David Sheloush..
FRONT ROW: (LEFT TO RIGHT) Rabbi Chaim Levy, Rabbi Pinhas Vaknin, Rabbi Shabetai Atoon, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, Rabbi Baruch Ben Haim, Rabbi Sadya Lofes, Rabbi Ezra Shayo.