Mordechai Sharabi

Mordechai Sharabi was born in 1912

Mordechai Sharabi was born in Sharab, Yemen, as Mordechai Yefet-Taizi. His father died before he was born, and his mother died when he was a small child. He and his sister were raised by his grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Yefet Taizi, who taught him Torah.

After his grandfather died, Rabbi Haim Sinwani raised and taught him. He moved to Aden and studied at the yeshiva of Rabbi Meshumar Nissim. He was ordained as a rabbi in his youth.

In 1932 he moved to the Land of Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He studied at the Shaarei Zion yeshiva and was one of the rabbis of the Beit El kabbalist yeshiva. He later founded the Nahar Shalom yeshiva, named for Rabbi Shalom Sharabi, and taught there for decades.

Many people came to him for advice and blessings. He used the money he received to support the yeshiva and people in need. He lived simply with his wife, Rabbanit Leah, who died in 1979, and the couple had no children.

In his last years he was physically weak, and his students carried him on a chair. He died in 1983 and was buried at Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem. Rabbi Benayahu Shmueli later took his place as head of Nahar Shalom.