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Ovadia Hedaya

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Language
  
Hebrew

Name
  
Ovadia Hedaya

Citizenship
  
Israeli

Ethnicity
  
Jewish


Ovadia Hedaya

Died
  
February 8, 1969, Jerusalem, Israel

Notable awards
  
Israel Prize (1968)

Ovadia Hedaya (Hebrew: עובדיה הדאיה‎‎‎, 24 December 1889 – 8 February 1969) was a leading Israeli rabbi.

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Biography

Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Jerusalem, the son of rabbi Shalom Hedaya from Aleppo, Ottoman Syria. In 1945, he succeeded his father as head of the Yeshivat haMekubalim (Kabbalists Yeshiva) at Beit El Synagogue, the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem.

Awards and honours

  • In 1968, Rabbi Hedaya was awarded the Israel Prize, in Rabbinical literature.

    • Published works

  • Yaskil Avdi (ישכיל עבדי‎): (Eight volumes)

    • References

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