YU TORAH Remembering Rav Ovadia Yosef By Rabbi Schacter

TODAY IS RAV OVADIA YOSEF YORTZEIT. Rabbi Schacter describes the personalty and halachic decisions of Rav Yosef and stories of his brilliance and hasmada. Rav Yosef conducted selichos at the kotel for all types of people. Discussed are his psak on: kasharus, writing teshuvos before being forty years old, wearing a watch under tifilin, starting to daven earlier than the minyan, using a katan for a minyan, skipping tachanun for a rebba's yartzeit, shiur bracha acharona on whiskey, women recting a bracha on a mitzvas aseh shehazeman grama, when to say tefilas haderech, performing a milah in the afternoon, having a ger reciting birchas hatorah after his tevilah, plastic utensils not requiring tevila, proper kesiva for a torah, doing yebum today, and many other issues of halacha.