Ovadia Yosef

Okay, so this part of the Tfilis, I'll hate...

All of Chai Israel, like Rabbi Yosef is saying this too.

Like, I feel like I didn't, so I'm not beyond the pale.

I'm still really within because all of Chai Israel is saying these tefillas.

Of Meir Kahane, Yossi Sarid said, capturing a lot in a single image, "He is a vampire sucking the blood of democracy." It was Yossi Sarid who coined the word "be Byzantine" when he said of Prime Minister Netanyahu, "A man must be a dishrag even to shine the shoes in the be Byzantine court." BB and Byzantine, you see how he combined those two words.

It was Yossi Sarid who, while Rav Ovadia Yosef was on his deathbed, surrounded by acolytes whose worry was already tinged with anticipatory mourning, wrote an essay about, to me anyway, the greatest rabbi in Israel's history, headlined, "Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader whose spirit was evil." That said, among other things, quote, "This is the spiritual leader whose spirit was evil, who lashed out at everyone who refused to submit to his authority.

This is the man who established the most corrupt party in the country, which brought to the Knesset so many representatives who have ended up in prison.

He held his party leaders' heads high in Borsalino hats and elevated their stature with Versace suits while leaving their voters in rags.

Similarly, according to Sefer Adim, a lady that's nidah is never allowed to bathe her husband, meaning to pour water on his hands.

But the question we learned in Al-Khawt Nidah, can she run the bath for him? So Shohana Rukh holds, or Maran holds, that as long as she's running the bath, not in front of the husband.

Husband's sitting there, she turns on the bath, or she turns on the faucet directly on his hands.

It's a problem.

It is technically permissible for a woman to wash a man's hands if it is for a mitzvah.

Okay, you should avoid that as well, Leboitai.

Maran, you should question the authenticity of this leniency.

So look at the last halakha.

And if he said those words, I should have cut out the article.

And he went to Sher Yosef to speak to Rabbi Freifeld.

Didn't make it.

Didn't make it.

One time in Yerushalayim, there was an election in Eretz Yisrael.

And Rabbi Yashiv was the godel in charge of telling people what to do.

As was Rabbi Yosef.

So until the last minute, people were in, tumbling, yes, no, what, how, et cetera, et cetera.

The Litvish party was established in 1982 as a breakaway from a combined Agoda-Sisra.

Agoda used to hold both, meaning both Hasidim And the Litvish, in 1982, under the leadership of Rav Shach, this mythological Haredi leader, who was also a Rosh Yeshiva, the head of a Yeshiva academy, but also a very shrewd and very sophisticated political leader.

And under his leadership, the party was called Degel Hatera, founded in 1982.

That's the Litvish party.

It runs in a kind of technical block, together with the Hasidic party, which is Agudas Yisrael, meaning the Hasidim retained the name Agudas Yisrael, and together they run, Dege Latour together with Agudas Yisrael, under the symbol Gimel.

Where do I find that divide? Now, you know, you live in this community, you're a leader in this community, and you feel that this is a more real divide.

But Shas is still Shas, and it is still very much about being Sephardi.

Who's living outside these frameworks? How many Haredim are not literally see themselves represented? And finally, the rabbinic leadership of the Haredi community is invested in these parties.

He doesn't speak so clearly.

So he came to him and said, Leichter, that was 40 years ago, he said, Leichter, who is the biggest Marwitz Torah in the world? Rav Shach, who is the biggest Marwitz Torah? He said, Ma, Ovadia Yosef, because he brought a posuk of Torah into every Jewish home.

I was like, ah, he knows what Torah is, I don't know.

I thought Torah is only the pshat in a sugi.

It's my army.

that's what's with the musafin what's with all the real things we say that's but we do see this concept and you know it's a little hard to argue on a person's emotions yeah you cannot cry by and you could be you could you know be joking around by because you know you shouldn't say it anyway feel what to do and we got into the Someone pointed out that even less than two minutes, more than Rabbi Yosef was saying, any time more than them tag him, is a ready to return to the Sibur.

Someone said that Meisav of Liashiv, who was davening in the Shtiblach, or somewhere around there, Meisharim, and there was a slower chazen, a faster chazen, and they had a vote who should daven, and Liashiv voted for the faster one, and he got outvoted.

So he went to decide to daven with a different minion.