Puiu Nadler: „Există o prăpastie de netrecut între majoritatea israelienilor și Talmud, iar această prăpastie se mărește din zi în zi.”

radu Stefan Puiu • 4 minute în urmă

Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Ion Coja.

Va multumesc foarte mult pentru explicatii , domnule Puiu!

Exact sursa care pomenea de funeralii nationale , nu o mai stiu, dar o voi cauta! Se pare ca au interpretat gresit, totusi, un fenomen de simpatie exceptional si in istoria Israelului!

Ma bucur sa aflu ca acest Obadiah Yosuf este respins de atatia israelieni, care-l socotesc „dezaxat”!

Doamne ajuta sa domine echilibrul intre omeni!

TOTUSI:
„Rabbi Ovadia Yosef buried in largest funeral in Israeli history800,000 attend last procession for revered leader of Sephardi Jewry”

Totusi , chiar asa de detestat nu pare sa fi fost in tara lui caci a avut cea mai mare congregatie care l-a condus pe ultimul sau drum.: 800.000 nu-i putin la asa o tara mica…………………………..

link:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-closes-down-for-rabbi-ovadia-yosefs-funeral/

titlu:
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef buried in largest funeral in Israeli history800,000 attend last procession for revered leader of Sephardi Jewry;

300 require medical treatment — but no serious injuries… and one birth; worried police chief had feared disaster as crowds swelled; public figures send condolences, recall a giant of Jewish thoughtBY GAVRIEL FISKE October 7, 2013, 5:15 pm Updated: October 7, 2013, 9:21 pm 26
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(photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Mourners at the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem, during the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on October 07, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)The body of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef arrives at the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem, from which hundreds of thousands of mourners will walk to the Sanhedriya cemetery where Rabbi Ovadia Yosef will be buried later in the evening. Rabbi Yosef passed away earlier in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2013 at the age of 93. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)The body of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef arrives at the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem, from which hundreds of thousands of mourners will walk to the Sanhedria cemetery where Rabbi Ovadia Yosef will be buried later in the evening. Rabbi Yosef passed away earlier in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2013 at the age of 93. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Ultra Orthodox Jewish men cry out as they mourn Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who passed away in Jerusalem on October 07, 2013 at the age of 93. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Ultra Orthodox Jewish men cry out as they mourn Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who passed away in Jerusalem on October 07, 2013 at the age of 93. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Mourners gather outside the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, on October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Mourners gather outside the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, on October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Ultra-orthodox Jewish mourners seen on a rooftop near the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem, where hundreds of thousands of mourners are gathering for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)Mourners on a rooftop near the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Jerusalem, where hundreds of thousands are gathering for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)Shas party leader of the Shas party Aryeh Deri (center) cries as he stands with Israeli President Shimon Peres (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not seen) near the body of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013. (photo by Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90Shas party leader Aryeh Deri (center) cries as he stands with Israeli President Shimon Peres (right) near the body of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013. (photo by Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90Israeli President Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Shas party Aryeh Deri and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat are seen helping carry the body of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who passed away earlier at the age of 93, in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Shas party leader Aryeh Deri and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat are seen helping carry the body of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who passed away earlier at the age of 93, in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)Followers of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef watch the television news to learn of his condition while waiting at the hospital where he was being treated shortly before he died, October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg)Followers of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef watch the television news to learn of his condition while waiting at the hospital where he was being treated shortly before he died, October 7, 2013. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg)Orthodox Jews cry as they react to the news that Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passed away in Jerusalem on October 07, 2013 at the age of 93. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)Orthodox Jews cry as they react to the news that Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passed away in Jerusalem on October 07, 2013 at the age of 93. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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The mourning afterHundreds visit Yosef mourning tent as Jerusalem recovers from funeralCancel yeshiva student draft, Yosef’s sons demand of PMOver 800,000 pack Jerusalem to mourn Yosef’s passingAt Yosef’s funeral, a crowd as diverse as his legacyDiscordant Shas faces possible schism after Yosef’s deathRipping the gates of heaven: Ovadia Yosef’s last hoursPA President Abbas sends condolences to Yosef familyDeath of a fearless power brokerIsraelis unite in grief over Yosef’s deathOvadia Yosef, outspoken spiritual leader of Israel’s Sephardi Jews, dies at 93
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the powerful, much-loved and sometimes controversial spiritual leader of Israel’s Sephardi community, passed away in Jerusalem early Monday afternoon after being hospitalized repeatedly over the last several weeks. He was 93. Ovadia was laid to rest Monday night in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sanhedria, with some 800,000 mourners converging from all over the country to attend what became the largest funeral in Israeli history. Despite the huge crowds, far beyond the numbers police had anticipated, there were no reports of serious injuries. Read The Times of Israel’s coverage of an unprecedentedly vast public outpouring of respect and grief.

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17:20
Jerusalem deploys police, opens traffic hotline for mourners
The Jerusalem municipality says that a large force of police officers, border police, traffic police and volunteers has been mustered to oversee security at Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s funeral.

The funeral is slated to begin at 6 p.m. at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in the Geula neighborhood and the mourners will proceed on foot to the Sanhedria cemetery. The streets around the cemetery will be closed to car and bus traffic and the police have instructed the public not to arrive in private vehicles to the site.

The following roads will be closed: Shmuel Hanavi, Eshkol, Golda Meir, Bar Ilan, Yirmiyahu, Malchei Yisrael and Yehezkel.

Egged has arranged for public buses to leave from the parking lot of the International Convention Center, near the Central Bus Station, to a parking area in Sanhedria near the proceedings.

The city opened a special hotline for public queries concerning street closures, transportation and parking: 1-700-553-100.

17:31
US ambassador: ‘May his memory be blessed’
“Rav Ovadia Yosef was a spiritual leader to hundreds of thousands, if not more, a great learner [of Torah] and a wise and learned man, a father to an impressive family and an important contributor to the society and politics of the state of Israel,” US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro says in a statement released in Hebrew.

“Today in Jerusalem and all across Israel, his supporters and followers mourn him,” he added. “To them, and first and foremost to his beloved family, I send my condolences. May his memory be blessed.”

17:50
Police worried about buildings collapsing from crowds
A police official was just on Channel 2, explaining that authorities are concerned that, due to the extremely heavy crowds expected to arrive for the funeral, some of the buildings in the neighborhood may collapse from the weight.

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to arrive, he said, and many are already crowding the rooftops of old buildings in the area around Sanhedria.

Channel 2 is broadcasting a feed from the area outside the Porat Yosef yeshiva, which is absolutely packed with mourners, many of whom are pushing against the border policemen assigned to crowd control duty.

17:55
Jewish Agency chair Sharansky says, ‘Entire Jewish communities returned to Israel thanks to Rav Ovadia’s rulings’Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky watches over the Old City of Jerusalem (photo credit: Oren Fixler/Flash90)
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Oren Fixler/Flash90)

“Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was one of the greatest rabbinic authorities who built the nation of Israel in the Land of Israel,” Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky says in a statement.

“Entire Jewish communities returned to Israel thanks to Rav Ovadia’s rulings,” Sharansky noted, adding that Yosef’s “rulings on conversion reflected first and foremost the importance of building the nation in an era of the in-gathering of exiles. May his memory be a blessing.”

18:09
Biggest ever?
A Channel 2 reporter is speculating that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s funeral will prove to be the largest funeral procession ever seen in Israel. TV footage showed an unconscious man being carried out through the tightly packed crowd.

18:14
Yosef was ‘impressive and incredibly intelligent,’ provided ‘unique leadership’ — Defense Minister Ya’alonStrategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was an “impressive and incredibly intelligent” man who was very involved in what was happening in Israel and beyond, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says, adding that Yosef was “a great Torah and law scholar” who was “careful to listen to different opinions before formulating his position, and did that with great openness and patience.”

“The rabbi displayed at meetings a true concern for Israel, [and] the security and strength of Israeli society in all its forms,” Ya’alon notes. Yosef was “extremely pragmatic” and provided a “unique leadership derived from his wisdom, greatness in Torah and his involvement in various parts of society.”

18:31
Funeral procession to begin shortly; some 300,000 estimated to be attending
The funeral procession for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is about to begin. Mourners are to accompany the body from the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Geula to the Sanhedria cemetary, through streets closed to vehicles by security forces.

Some 300,000 people are estimated to be in attendance, according to a Maariv report.

18:36
Entrance to Jerusalem reportedly blocked by praying mourners
Channel 2 reports that “tens of thousands” of mourners are on their way to Jerusalem to attend the funeral, but have temporarily blocked the entrance to the city as, with dusk approaching, they stopped their vehicles en masse in order to recite their afternoon prayers.

18:46
Yosef ‘solved problems no one else could solve using his wisdom and spirituality’ — President Peres
“A few hours ago I went to the hospital to say goodbye to my teacher, my rabbi, my friend Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,” President Shimon Peres relates in an official statement. “It was a difficult time. Tears filled my eyes and my throat was choked with emotion. I held his hand which was still warm and kissed his forehead. When I pressed his hand I felt I was touching history and when I kissed his head it was as though I kissed the very greatness of Israel,” he added.

“Immediately after the fall of the Second Temple there were two greats of the Torah — Yohanan ben Zakai and Yehuda Hanasi,” Peres continues, adding, “I mention them because they came to the conclusion that for the Jewish people to survive we need to study. Rabbi Yosef symbolized that and acted upon it. He was simply a great man. His greatness wasn’t measured but rather it was felt as a spiritual wind in every corner, lighting up the darkness in unexpected places. When I met him I sensed he was a great man with an unbelievable memory and the wisdom to share his knowledge with others. His contribution was his love for Israel and he solved problems no one else could solve using his wisdom and spirituality.”

Peres, who had known Yosef for decades, was among the last to visit the rabbi’s hospital bed earlier in the day, before his passing.

President Shimon Peres visiting the sukkah of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on Tuesday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
President Shimon Peres visiting the sukkah of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

18:56
Police warn of ‘real danger of loss of life’ from huge crowds, estimate 400,000 in attendancePolice Commissioner Yohanan Danino (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police now estimate there are some 400,000 mourners in attendance, with more arriving every minute. Police Commander Yohanon Danino, in a televised interview, pleads with further mourners to stay away, and warns that “the funeral could end in a tragedy” because of the vast crowds.

Police crowd control reinforcements are themselves stuck in the crowd, he adds. “We see masses converging on the yeshiva from where the funeral procession is set to leave… Our request, our demand, for the sake of the rabbi’s honor, we must do everything we can to avoid loss of life.”

“We see huge crowds crowding the rooftops, some of them hanging from antennas… we are doing what we can to bring them down,” he adds.

“There is real danger of loss of life,” Danino says, but “we have to let the procession pass as it must. Our central role is to look out for the hundreds of thousands who have arrived… and ensure they return to their homes in peace.”

19:06
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s son, delivers emotional address
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Ovadia Yosef’s son, who just a few months ago was elected to the post of Sephardi chief rabbi, a position once held by his father, is delivering an emotional address to the assembled crowds.

“My father, my father,” he cries repeatedly, comparing Yosef’s death to the destruction of the Second Temple. “We must continue on his path,” he adds. “The world of yesterday won’t be tomorrow. There was no one like hi, and there won’t anyone like him in the future,” he added.

19:11
Procession to cemetery beginsA van carrying Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s body slowly moves through the crowd (photo credit: screen capture/Channel 2)
A van carrying Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s body slowly moves through the crowd (photo credit: screen capture/Channel 2)

A large black van has emerged from the Porat Yosef yeshiva compound, carrying the body of Ovadia Yosef. The vehicle is completely surrounded by the crowd, who keep trying to get close to the body despite Border Police attempts to keep them away, television images show.

The van is only able to advance very slowly and carefully.

19:16
Over 40 people already have received first aid
United Hatzalah, the emergency medical response organization operating at the funeral, reports that over 40 people have already received first aid. The group says it has dispatched some 350 medical professionals, 9 ambulances and 150 first aid motorcycles to the area and has set up a field clinic to treat injuries.

19:21
Yosef’s death ‘an opportunity for solidarity,’ Labor MK saysMeirav Michaeli giving a speech in the Knesset. (Screenshot: Knesset Channel 10)
Meirav Michaeli giving a speech in the Knesset. (Screenshot: Knesset Channel 10)

“There are those for whom the day on which Rabbi Ovadia Yosef died is a day of catastrophe almost like the day I had when [former prime minister Yitzhak] Rabin was murdered,” Labor MK Merav Michaeli posts on her Facebook profile. Many people felt a real sense of orphanhood today, she adds, and while she does not belong to this group, “it is impossible to ignore the enormous role Rabbi Ovadia fulfilled in Israel society, a part of it problematic but a part of it very important.”

Every single one of us has his or her private rabbi and is broken when he or she passes away, the self-described feminist lawmaker writes. “This is an opportunity for solidarity – not for agreement, but for real consoling between sisters and brothers.”

Raphael Ahren

19:25
Far-left MK recalls Yosef ruled ‘for the sake of peace, it is permissible to give up on sovereignty in Jerusalem’
Far-left lawmaker Dov Khenin, of the mixed Arab-Jewish Hadash party, posted a scan of an old newspaper article, which quotes the rabbi as ruling that, “for the sake of peace, it is permissible to give up on sovereignty in Jerusalem.”

“The saving of lives supersedes the [notion of] the Entire Land of Israel,” Khenin writes, quoting one of Rabbi Ovadia’s most often-cited rulings. “I express my sympathy to the family and a large community in Israel on the death of one who was for them a revered and loved leader.”

Raphael Ahren

19:26
Yosef was ‘greatest of his generation,’ Danny Danon says
“Extraordinary wisdom, tremendous spiritual leadership and humility are what made the Rabbi Ovadia the greatest of his generation,” Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon writes. He was a great arbiter [of Jewish law] who had a big heart, great humanity and tremendous courage.”

Raphael Ahren

19:30
Throngs continue to arrrive
Hundreds of thousands of people are still trying to reach the funeral in Jerusalem, Channel 2 reports. According to the most recent assessments, there are already half a million people attending.

19:42
Love for Israel like ‘a flame burning within’ Yosef, Tel Aviv chief rabbi saysRabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (photo credit: Flash90)
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (photo credit: Flash90)

Yosef was “the teacher of the entire Israeli people, of the whole diaspora, not just of one sector,” Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau says during his address to the crowd. Yosef was a “rare combination,” Lau adds, of intelligence coupled with “a huge heart full of love for Israel, which pulsed like a flame burning within him.”

19:43
Watch a clip from the funeral
A short clip uploaded by Rav Ovadia’s official YouTube channel from the funeral:

19:50
Yosef was a revolutionary who ‘restored the dignity of hundreds of thousands who had felt disenfranchised,’ Likud MK saysMoshe Feiglin (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
Moshe Feiglin (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Likud MK Moshe Feiglin hails Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as one of Israel’s “greatest and most important leaders of the last generations.”

“The revolution brought about by Rabbi Ovadia during his lifetime reached every city and neighborhood in Israel,” Feiglin says. “It extricated tens of thousands from the cycle of hardship and ignorance and ushered them into a world of tradition, mitzva observance, Torah study and prayer. It restored the dignity of hundreds of thousands who had felt disenfranchised, affording them a place of honor, relevance and contribution to society.”

Raphael Ahren

19:54
‘A great loss to all Jewry but to the Sephardi world in particular’
The president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews Vivian Wineman says in a statement: “The passing of the great Torah scholar and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a great loss to all Jewry but to the Sephardi world in particular. His scholarship and charisma brought pride to that venerable community and renewed interest in their ancient traditions. Our thoughts are with his family at this saddest of moments, as well as the countless Jewish communities who sought his wisdom.”

20:06
Labor MK’s grandfather, a chief rabbi of Israel, treated Yosef ‘like a son’
Labor MK Isaac Herzog recalls how the late Rabbi Ovadia used to talk with pride about how the lawmaker’s grandfather — Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, a chief rabbi of Israel and of Mandatory Palestine — took Yosef in and treated him like a son when the rabbi first arrived in Israel after having lived in Egypt.

“Over the years, we talked a lot about Jewish law, politics, the state and its social needs,” Herzog writes on his Facebook page. “While we didn’t always agree, I afforded him great respect, both as a teacher of Jewish law and as a very important public leader in Israel.”

20:27
Yosef recalled endorsing ‘land for peace’ principle
Channel 2 commentator Amnon Abramovich opines that for all Yosef’s landmark halachic rulings, he will be remembered and is most significant for the one that held that the Israeli government can relinquish territory for peace.

The Shas party’s MKs enabled the implementation of the Oslo peace accords in the mid ’90s by remaining in the Rabin government while they were passed by the Knesset.

20:42
Wall collapses near Porat Yosef yeshiva
A wall has collapsed in front of the Porat Yosef yeshiva, Maariv reports. Medics are at the scene, but so far there are no reports of injuries.

Earlier, police warned of the danger of collapsing buildings or structures due to the large crowd.

20:57
75 people have received first aid at funeral
Around 75 people have received first aid from paramedics at the funeral, Magen David Adom reports, and at least 10 have been hospitalized, none in serious condition.

20:59
Yosef’s legacy ‘will forever be diminished by egregious outbursts of intolerance’ — Reform movement leader
Rabbi Rick Block, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the main rabbinic body of the American Reform movement, issues a statement on Yosef:

“Rabbi Yosef’s passing is a source of great sadness to the many who revered him and I extend heartfelt condolences to his family. Sadly, his legacy will forever be diminished by egregious outbursts of intolerance toward Reform and Conservative Jews, as well as non-Jews, especially Arabs. His comments ascribing the Holocaust to Jewish sinners also caused many great pain. Love and respect for all Jews and persons of every background are essential Jewish values.”

Haviv Rettig Gur

21:06
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in 1973
The National Archives only a few weeks ago uploaded to YouTube this brief clip, showing Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on the day he became chief Sephardi rabbi in 1973:

21:19
Police estimate more than 700,000 attending funeral
Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says there are more than 700,000 mourners attending what he says is the largest funeral in Israel’s history.