Rav Ovadia Yosef and the Revival of Sephardic Halakhah
This presentation by Dr. Marc Shapiro continues the Torah in Motion series "The Thought and Worldview of Influential Jewish Thinkers."
Rav Ovadia Yosef, zt"l, was one of the most respected arbiters of Jewish law of this generation, and the spiritual leader of the Shas movement since its inception in the 1980s. His scholarship and deep knowledge of Jewish law gave him unparalleled control over the Shas political party for almost two decades, which changed the landscape of Israeli politics and gave Shas and its Sephardi voters, both haredi and nonreligious, unprecedented influence over the course of events in the country.
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Dr. Marc Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing…