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Yehuda Tzadka

Yehuda Tzadka was a Sephardi rabbi in Jerusalem who taught at Porat Yosef Yeshiva for decades and served as its rosh yeshiva from 1970 to 1991.

1910 to 1991Rosh yeshiva of Porat YosefTeaching Ovadia Yosef and other rabbisCo-founding Maayan HaChinuch HaToraniThe book Kol Yehuda

Born: 13 January 1910, Jerusalem
Died: 20 October 1991, Jerusalem
Occupation: rabbi
Education: Porat Joseph Yeshiva

Yehuda Tzadka was born in 1910 in Jerusalem

Yehuda Tzadka was born in Jerusalem in 1910. His father, Shaul, was a merchant from Baghdad, and his mother, Simcha, was a niece of the Ben Ish Chai. The family lived in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood.

He studied at Talmud Torah Bnei Tzion and, after his bar mitzvah, joined Porat Yosef Yeshiva in the Old City. There he became a close student of Rabbi Ezra Attiya. In 1934 he married Fahima Batat, and they had five sons and two daughters.

In 1937 Attiya chose him to give Talmud classes at the yeshiva. His students included Ovadia Yosef and Ben Zion Abba Shaul. He also urged immigrant families to give their children a Torah education, and he was among the founders of the Maayan HaChinuch HaTorani school network.

After Attiya died in 1970, Tzadka became rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef. In 1984 he published the book Kol Yehuda on halakha and aggadah. His first wife died in 1979, and he then married Tamar Asuderi.

He suffered several heart attacks in his later years. He died on 20 October 1991 and was buried in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem.