Ovadia Hedaya
עובדיה הדאיה
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Allepo, Syria
Ovadia Hedaya (Hebrew: עובדיה הדאיה, 24 December 1889 – 8 February 1969) was a leading Israeli rabbi.
Biography
Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, to rabbi Shalom Hedaya.[1] In 1945, he succeeded his father as head of Yeshivat HaMekubalim, the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem.
Awards and honours
- In 1968, Rabbi Hedaya was awarded the Israel Prize, in Rabbinical literature.[2]
Published works
- Yaskil Avdi (ישכיל עבדי): (Eight volumes)
See also
References
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Heads of Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva
- Gedaliah Hayun (1737-1750)
- Shalom Sharabi (1750-1777)
- Yom Tov Algazi (1777-1806)
- Hezkiyahu Yitzhak Sharabi (1806-1808)
- Raphael Avraham Shalom Mizrahi Sharabi (1808-1827)
- Chaim Abraham Gagin (1827-1850)
- Yedidyah Raphael Chai Abulafiya (1850-1871)
- Aharon Azriel (1871-1881)
- Shalom Moshe Chai Gagin (1881-1883)
- Sasson Bechar Moshe (1883-1903)
- Masoud Elchadad (1903-1927)
- Shalom Hedaya (1927-1945)
- Ovadia Hedaya (1958-1969)
- Shalom Mordechai Chaim Hedaya (1969-1973)
- Yehuda Getz (1973-1995)
- Yisrael Avichai (1995-present)
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