No words can describe the massive wound to the Jewish People, with the loss of this generation's greatest rabbi, our mentor and spiritual father, affectionately known as "Maran" (title given to the great of the generation) Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, of saintly and blessed memory. Maran was the Sephardic Chief Rabbi (Rishon Letzion) of Israel from 1973-1983, a monumental Talmudic scholar with a prodigious memory, and the undisputed foremost halachic authority of our time. Even more, he loved every Jew and devoted his life to spreading Torah to every single person, personally traveling around the country to teach people and bring them closer to Torah. He was the author of dozens of books and the spiritual leader of the Shas Movement and the El-HaMaayan Youth Movement
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