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Title: Former Chief Sephardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: FULL METAL JACKET on March 13, 2008, 05:38:43 PM: Did anyone see the documentary on Kahanists PBS put out? Near the end he was welcoming a Kahanist prisoner who just got out of jail.

Click on Chapter 4, and skip until 1:25 seconds, and you'll see him
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/israel/view/

I'm wondering is this the former chief sephardic rabbi or someone else? I might be confused because the style of dress is almost identical to the current chief.
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: Tzvi Ben Roshel1 on March 13, 2008, 05:41:16 PM: Thats Rav Moredechi Eliyahu Shalita. Not a kahanist officially, but does have right wing views and rulings. I also belive that he was the Rav who got Rabbi Kahane's son Benyamin Kahane and Talia Kahane married, and their are pictures where they were together.
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: kahaneloyalist on March 13, 2008, 05:44:09 PM: He and to a much greater degree his son Shmuel, are known for strongly supporting Rabbi Kahane zt'
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: judeanoncapta on March 13, 2008, 05:45:34 PM: Quote from: kahaneloyalist on March 13, 2008, 05:44:09 PM
He and to a much greater degree his son Shmuel, are known for strongly supporting Rabbi Kahane zt'

His son Shmuel is the Rabbi of Tzfat.

A truly great Jew respected by all. Even by the Haredim of Tzfat.
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: FULL METAL JACKET on March 13, 2008, 05:49:44 PM: Thanks everyone for all the replies. Good to know.

It's interesting to see how many people are sympathetic to Kahanist views but don't necessarily endorse them officially. Must be many people throughout Israel who fit this description.
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: mord on March 13, 2008, 06:25:02 PM: He's great and so is his son.They probably hate shas
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: Dominater96 on March 13, 2008, 11:12:57 PM: Him and Hacham Ovadia are in 2 different Halachic camps. Hacham Ovadia wants to make uniform Sephardic Halacha for every1 not just Iraqi. Hacham Mordechai is in the Ben Ish Chai camp. In my gemara Shiur, my rabbi said he heard Hacham OVadia speak, and the next speech was Hacham Mordechai. He said their speeches were 2 polar opposites.
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: Kahane-Was-Right BT on March 13, 2008, 11:19:28 PM: I have heard that Rabbi Mordecai Eliyahu's speed and accuracy in "mass-inspecting" etrogim are a true marvel.

My friend told me that he was able to check them at a rate of something like 1-2 seconds each, so one day they tried to trick the Rav by taking one of the etrogim he had checked already and deemed pasul and put it back in the line, and he kept at the same rate until he got to this one, looked at it and said 'already checked this one' LOL
Title: Re: Former Chief Sefardic Rabbi a Kahanist?
Post by: habiru on March 24, 2008, 12:31:13 PM: Alot of people are upset though about his 'hoya lo tihye' comment before the 'disengagement'.