HaRav Dovid Yosef, a member of the Moetzes Chachmei HaTorah and head of Beis Medrash Yechave Daas, called to the public on Monday to refrain from flocking to the kever of his father, Hagaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef, z’tl, next week for his yahrtzeit due to coronavirus regulations and the obligation of “V’nishmartem me’od l’nafshoseichem.”
HaRav Dovid said that anyone who wishes to go the kever should instead dedicate an hour of limmud Torah l’illui nishmaso of Rebbi Ovadia Yosef ben Georgia, z’tl, on the day of the yartzeit.
HaRav Dovid added that anyone who will commit to learning for his father instead of coming to the kever should submit their name for tefilla and he will daven for them at the kever on the day of the yartzeit.
Anyone who is interested in submitting their name can do so at: https://forms.gle/5MAWMs3eEpjaRFnL9.
Rav Ovadia’s kever is located in the Sanhedria cemetery in the heart of a crowded Chareidi neighborhood in Jerusalem and there is little room for social distancing, both at the entrance to the cemetery and in the cemetery itself.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
Then it shall be 2 years running not coming to the קבר:- Both 7th & 8th יארצייט, since next year the יארצייט comes out on שבת.
Needless to say, I was at the קבר on the very 1st יארצייט.
Rebbi Ovadia Yosef ben Georgia sounds like his second name is Yosef, but that was his last name. Unless he had a secot name, if would be Rebbi Ovadia ben Georgia.
Moderators Response: His name is exactly as YWN wrote it.
Why is it even necessary for the rav to beg his followers not to come to the kever?? Do they not have the intelligence to understand the critical importance of not risking further outbreaks in a neighborhood and community already suffering from much higher positive infectiong rates
Refoelzeev, you are indeed correct. YWN indicated the Rav’s surname. A search of prior mentionings for Tehilim for the Rav is indicative Ovadia Haim ben Georgia. Source after source after source. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172187 and https://hamodia.com/2013/01/13/hagaon-harav-ovadia-yosef-shlita-released-from-hospital-after-mild-stroke/ and
Yosef is both his first and last name. But shouldn’t you write his father’s name, and not his mother’s?
Ovadia Yosef ben Yaakov?