Yitzchak Kaduri, also spelled Kadouri and Kadourie (died January 28 2006), was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash. His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility. He has not published any religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his ag...
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Yitzchak Kaduri, also spelled Kadouri and Kadourie (died January 28 2006), was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash. His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility. He has not published any religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 106 to 110.
He was born in Baghdad, which was then part of the Ottoman Turkish vilayets, to Rabbi Katchouri Diba ben `Aziza, a spice trader. His exact year of birth is unknown. As a youngster, Kaduri excelled in his studies and began learning Kabbalah while still in his teens, a study that would last his entire life. He was a student of the Ben Ish Chai (Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad) and studied at the Zilka Yeshivah in Baghdad.
Rabbi Kaduri moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1923 upon the advice of the elders of...
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