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    Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro (Hebrew: ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; c. 1445 – c. 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century...
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    (Ovadia) Somekh (1813 – September 13, 1889) was an Iraqi Jewish hakham, rosh yeshiva and posek. Abdallah Somekh was born in 1813 in Baghdad to Abraham...
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  • (1943–1982) Sholom Rivkin (1983–2011) Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1911–1939) Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (1942–1960) Ovadia Yosef (1968–1973) Hayim David HaLevi...
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  • Ovadia ben Jacob Sforno (Obadja Sforno, Hebrew: עובדיה ספורנו) was an Italian rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher and physician. A member of the Sforno...
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  • David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, in one day in Egypt, a great congregation of Karaites became Rabbinical Jews during the time of the Nagid Rabbi Abraham Maimonides...
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    Siddur Siddur Yeḥavveh Daat Siddur Avodat Ha-shem Siddur Ḥazon Ovadia Maḥzor Ḥazon Ovadia Siddur Kavanat Halev סדור עוד אבינו חי: למחנה וערבית : נוסח ליוורנו...
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  • Aridor; Eliahu Ben Elissar; Meir Cohen-Avidov; Yigal Cohen-Orgad; Yigal Cohen; Haim Corfo; Michael Dekel; Sarah Doron; Michael Eitan; Ovadia Eli; Gideon...
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    of piety. In a recent responsum, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef ruled that it should be worn to show affiliation with the religiously...
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    be from an earlier date. Abraham Zacuto's 1504 work Sefer Yuhasin (first printed 1566) quotes from the Kabbalist Isaac ben Samuel of Acre's 13th century...
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  • God, is true" which appears in the book "Be'er Maim Chaim" of Rabbi Chaim Ovadia di Bushal, who signed it together with other rabbis of the time, including...
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