Yosef Kapach
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Rabbi Yosef Kapach (יוסף קאפח), also spelled Qafih or Gafeh (1917-2000), was one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community, first in Yemen and later in Israel. He was the grandson of Rabbi Yihye Qafih, also a prominent Yemenite leader and founder of the Dor Deah (anti-Kabbalah) movement in Judaism.
At the age of 19 he was released from prison, married his wife, Rabbanit Bracha, and soon thereafter immigrated to Israel. He lived in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Nachlaot for the rest of his life, where he was the rabbi of a small Yemenite neighborhood synagogue.
He died in July 2000 at the age of 82 years.
[edit] Published works
- Mishneh Torah of the Rambam, corrected according to ancient Yemenite manuscripts, with his own commentary
- Iggeroth haRambam, in original Arabic with facing Hebrew translation
- Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah, in original Arabic with facing Hebrew translation (later editions have Hebrew only)
- Halichot Teiman ('Laws of Yemen'), on the customs of Yemenite Jews
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