Yehuda Tzadka

Rabbi
Yehuda Tzadka
Personal
Born
Yehuda Yehoshua Tzadka

13 January 1910
Died20 October 1991(1991-10-20) (aged 81)
Jerusalem, Israel
ReligionJudaism
SpouseFahima Batat
Tamar Asuderi
ChildrenMoshe
4 other sons
2 daughters
Parent(s)Shaul and Simcha Tzadka
Alma materPorat Yosef Yeshiva
Jewish leader
PredecessorRabbi Ezra Attiya
SuccessorRabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaPorat Yosef Yeshiva
BeganMay 1970
BuriedSanhedria Cemetery, Jerusalem[1]

Yehuda Yehoshua Tzadka (Hebrew: יהודה צדקה; 13 January 1910 – 20 October 1991)[2] was a respected Sephardi rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He became a student in the yeshiva after his bar mitzvah, and continued to study and teach there for almost 70 years.[1]

  1. ^ a b Rossoff, Dovid (2005). קדושים אשר בארץ: קברי צדיקים בירושלים ובני ברק [The Holy Ones in the Earth: Graves of Tzaddikim in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak] (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Machon Otzar HaTorah. pp. 348–349.
  2. ^ Sofer, D. "Pillar of Sephardic Jewry: Rav Yehuda Tzadka zt"l". Yated Ne'eman. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011.