The Incredible Inside Story Of R' Ovadia Yosef's Rise To Greatness

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The opening of this shiur, in Dr. Jack Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good morning everyone it's rabbi dr jack cohn while you may know me as being famous for being the guru of dating inshallah today is a very auspicious day it's gimmel marchevan today's the day which is the yorkshire of maran of save the great hoseak and the great saathatra rather great prince of torah so i thought it would be an auspicious opportunity to speak about his greatness i and my family hashem we had a tremendous legacy with the rabbi as you may know the rabbi left israel to go to cairo egypt in the 1940s in order to establish yeshiva that he in order to establish yeshiva that he was sent there by zaratea who was roshi shiva parachute from to be the av and to establish torah there my family hails from cairo egypt it was originally from syria but from college where i was born so i wanted to share a beautiful picture with you today this picture is a memento that i cherish and this is a picture of rava vajraya yosef you could see him right here the camera's going to zoom in on it in the very corner is my uncle my father's brother isaac cohen my two uncles isaac cohen and meyer cohen were esteemed

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1. 0:00good morning everyone it's rabbi dr jack cohn while you may know me as being famous…
2. 1:30students of his i recall when i was a young child in the 1970s that rav…
3. 3:02was yosef's love of torah he studied torah every possible second of his life and that…
4. 4:32he loved every jew he was easy to talk to he would get up and tell…
5. 6:35when asked why explained well this is a serious surgery they're worried i might not survive…
6. 8:06there all the rabbi said i have a new policy i don't leave jerusalem if you…
7. 9:36like to build the midrash in his father's name the other man asked him where are…
8. 11:39wearing that beautiful cafta and the robe that is worn by spotted chief rabbis once while…
9. 13:13but had in mind an additional thought faradin it also stands for sin could be also…
10. 14:45please intervene for me in heaven if i'm blind i won't be able to learn torah…

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