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gryp ↓

Sat, Jan 28 2006, 7:35 pm

Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri Passes Away in Jerusalem at 108 00:20 Jan 29, '06 / 29 Tevet 5766
By Ezra HaLevi

Elder Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri passed away Saturday night at Jerusalem's Bikur Cholim Hospital. His funeral will take place Sunday at noon.

Rav Kaduri, born in 1898, was 108 years old. He was hospitalized for 13 days prior to his death.

Rabbi Kaduri's funeral will set out at 12 PM Sunday from Jerusalem's Nahalat Yitzchak Yeshiva, which he headed. The Yeshiva is located in 19 David Street in the capital's Bucharian neighborhood. The procession will continue until Har HaMenuchot.

Arutz-7 Hebrew Radio show host Yehoshua Meiri, a student of Rabbi Kaduri, visited Rabbi Kaduri at his hospital bedside two weeks ago with the Kabbalist's grandson, Rabbi Yossi Kaduri. Meiri reported that the elder Rabbi Kaduri told them, "The time of Redemption has come."

Rabbi Kaduri made Aliyah (moved to Israel) in 1908. He then returned to Iraq to study with the famed Ben Ish Chai, and later returned to the Holy Land in 1916. He studied in Yeshivat Porat Yosef in the Old City of Jerusalem, and later in Yeshivat Nachlat Yitzchak in Jerusalem's Bucharian neighborhood. The Rabbi quickly gained a reputation for his profound study of Torah law and Kabbalah, piercing insights, and great piety.

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the Council of Sages of the Shas Party said, "We are mourning the passing of the elder kabbalist, the remnant of the Great Assembly, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri."

Shas Chairman Eli Yishai said, "All of Israel is one family in mourning today he who all his life prayed on behalf of the Nation of Israel and rose in a tempest heavenward."

www.arutzsheva.com

technic

Sat, Jan 28 2006, 7:40 pm

Baruch Dayan Emet Sad

Aish

Sat, Jan 28 2006, 7:45 pm

Baruch dayin emes.
reading this just took my breath away. im so shocked and so sad.
I realy feel that something will change in the world now.
Rav kaduri was a shining light, and I think there will be a shift of some sort.

↑ gryp ↓

Sat, Jan 28 2006, 7:51 pm

may your nevuah come true Wink

I also feel that the world is changing very swiftly before our eyes, as if we dont know what to expect next.
another leader in Israel has left us alone in the dark deep galus. Crying

May We Merit Moshiach Now!

Tefila ↓

Sat, Jan 28 2006, 8:16 pm

We have lost all our Great Leaders Crying

something for sure is happening Exclamation

queen

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 12:36 am

he used to be on the radio in israel once a week where ppl would call him up with their problems, and he'd 'prescribe' what tefillos or what they should do. it was sooooooo interesting to listen to.

(it was on arutz sheva)

sarahd

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 2:44 am

Baruch Dayan HoEmes. Crying

supermom ↓

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 5:45 am

Baruch dayin emes Crying

I was shocked to hear the news this morning.
interesting enough rav kaduri was suppose to have lived to see moshiach. My grandfathe just told me that a couple of weeks ago before he died he told someone he is not sure who that moshiach had come to him and he saw him. that means who knows how much longer moshiach is suppose to come because he already was zoche to see moshiach before he died.

Pearl

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 6:39 am

Baruch Dayan HaEmet

hardwrknmom

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 10:55 am

Baruch Dayan Emes

↑ Tefila

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 1:07 pm

Quote:

that means who knows how much longer moshiach is suppose to come because he already was zoche to see moshiach before he died.

Yes thats what I thought too Confused

↑ gryp

Sun, Jan 29 2006, 2:01 pm

(bold is my own)

Quote:

Rabbi Kaduri, who commemorated his 105th birthday several months ago, had been in serious condition for the last two weeks in Bikur Cholim Hospital, where he was cared for by his personal physician.

Police closed off Jerusalem streets for the Sunday afternoon funeral, which became one of the largest ever in a city known for large funerals. The funeral began at noon at Yeshivat Nachalat Yitzchak, in the Bucharim neighborhood, between Geulah and Shmuel HaNavi. Rabbis Ovadiah Yosef and Mordechai Eliyahu eulogized him, as did President Moshe Katzav. Rabbi Kaduri was buried in the Mt. Menuchot cemetery.

Students of the righteous rabbi say that the blessing of the Ben Ish Chai (considered the leading rabbi of Sephardic Jewry, d. 1904) and that of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - both of whom blessed him that he might live to see the Final Redeemer - came true. The rabbi's closest followers say that Rabbi Kaduri told them he met the Messiah on Cheshvan 9, 5764 (Nov. 4, 2003). He reportedly said that the Messiah is not promoting himself, and that a study of his [Rabbi Kaduri's] words in recent months would provide hints of his identity.

"He is not saying, 'I am the Mashiach, 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 Mashiach." So said Rabbi Kaduri to one of his close relatives.

Rabbi Kaduri was also quoted of late as saying that the imminent arrival of the Mashiach will "save Jerusalem from Islam and Christianity that wish to take Jerusalem from the Jewish Nation - but they will not succeed, and they will fight each other."

This past Yom Kippur, shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Rabbi Kaduri said, "Jews must come to the land of Israel to receive our righteous Mashiach, who has begun his influence and will reveal himself in the future."

Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, spiritual leader of much of Sephardic Jewry in Israel today, announced, "We are in mourning over the Elder of the Kabbalists, a remnant of the Great Assembly, Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri."

Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger expressed his great sorrow "over the taking of the great righteous Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, of blessed memory. He was a great and humble tzaddik [righteous person]. In his greatness, he dedicated his days and nights to blessing Jews, to pray for Israel, and he felt the pain of those who turned to him for all their troubles. Rabbis from around the country and the world admired him and asked for his blessing."

A statement released by President Moshe Katzav's office said the president "is pained by the death of the important and accomplished rabbi whose reputation is world-renowned. Rabbi Kaduri, one of the great rabbis of the Jewish People, was noted for his love of Israel and in his second-to-none expertise in Kabbalah, contributed to Jewish unity, and was a source of inspiration for the Jewish People in Israel and around the world."

Rabbi Kaduri came to the Holy Land in 1923, where he learned in Yeshivat Porat Yosef in Jerusalem. He studied Kabbalah under the tutelage of Rabbi Ephraim Cohen and Rabbi Salman Eliyahu (father of former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu).

Rabbi Kaduri's son said there were only 60 Kabbalists in the Holy Land at the time, and that only one who prayed for 15 years with "Rashash intentions" was accorded that status.

When the Old City of Jerusalem was captured by the Jordanians in 1948, the Yeshiva was evacuated to the Bucharim Quarter. Rabbi Kaduri studied Kabbalah there until 1970, when such study was stopped in Yeshivat Porat Yosef. He also studied for many years in Yeshivat Beit El on Rashi St. in Jerusalem, and then moved with his students to found a new institution called Yeshivat Nachalat Yitzchak.

Rabbi Kaduri engaged in bookbinding. He perused all the books he bound, including many old manuscripts which he "photographed" in his memory. Graced with a phenomenal memory, he was said to have known the entire Babylonian Talmud by heart.

"In one instance," a source close to him relates, "in disagreement with a leading Halakhic authority of today, Rabbi Kaduri smiled in his inimitable manner, lifted his hand to the bookshelf and immediately opened to the right page, proving his point. The [other] rabbi was astonished at his familiarity with the [non-Kabbalistic] sources."

(arutz sheva)

JEWISHMAMA

Tue, Jan 31 2006, 6:48 am

BARUCH DAYAN EMET
He was the shining light and that light has now gone out.
I believe he did see mashiach before he passed. He was also suppose to live til 120. I asked my dh and he said that it was a possibility that he really was 120 as records back then weren´t so correct with the dates.

In any case we have lost a GREAT GADOL and it will make shifts in the Olam.

Motek

Tue, Jan 31 2006, 11:40 am

to see a video of Rabbi Kaduri coming to the Lubavitcher Rebbe in June 1990:

http://video.google.com/videop.....rebbe

Crayon210

Tue, Jan 31 2006, 11:45 am

Thank you for that; though it's very difficult to understand.

↑ supermom

Tue, Jan 31 2006, 2:33 pm

motek thanks like crayon said I didn't understand it either but it was something interesting to watch.

LubavitchLeah

Tue, Jan 31 2006, 3:58 pm

THANK YOU MOTEK!!!
I felt overcome with emotion watching that powerful warm interaction. Strangely I struggled to understand it too, yet it felt beautiful to witness.