Rav Ovadiah Yosef's Historic Visit To Iran - On His Yahrtzeit '

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this evening is the yard side of have we ever had a scholar of such Eminence someone who was proficient in in all and to this extent and to be at the same time such an eminent marbra who traveled the length and breadth of Earth is and throughout the world to strengthen Tyra and to teach Tyra on this occasion perhaps we can share one specific account of when rabad ysf visited the Jewish community of Iran T Shin lamid B at the time the political climate was such that radya was able to visit the Jewish community of Iran they urged him to come and when he was there he dealt with a very urgent halakic question were females allowed to inherit from their parents' estate according to Iranian local law a girl could inherit her father and many Jewish women wanted to know whether they could acquire a portion of their parents estate many Jewish women even converted to Islam in order to gain monitary benefit of inheriting from their father so radya issued many edicts to be able to assist the Jewish population in this area and it was ratified by the government and uh the establishment of Iran when Maran was in tan he was confronted with a very complicated issue the Jews in tan contributed a very large sum of money toward constructing a big sh and a Mikvah however the money that they collected did not cover the total cost and the project needed to be abandoned

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1. 0:00this evening is the yard side of have we ever had a scholar of such Eminence…
2. 0:30throughout the world to strengthen Tyra and to teach Tyra on this occasion perhaps we can…
3. 1:00he dealt with a very urgent halakic question were females allowed to inherit from their parents'…
4. 1:32assist the Jewish population in this area and it was ratified by the government and uh…
5. 2:03and the question is what should they do with the communal funds they wanted to use…
6. 2:34your welfare I received your letter on the 20th of and regarding your question may the…
7. 3:05there's no mikah and the women have to travel far to be and now they see…
8. 3:35R's conclusion is that anything collected for a Mitzvah of building a Mikvah or a cannot…
9. 4:06says there already was a it's just small and it's incumbent on all the to follow…
10. 4:38letter that means before the day of Tish before a day that he was not permitted…

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