Yitzhak Kaduri
| Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri | |
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| Birth name | Yitzhak Kaduri |
| Born | c. 1902 Baghdad, Iraq |
| Died | 28 January 2006 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Denomination | Sephardic Haredim |
| Occupation | Rabbi, kabbalist |
Yitzchak Kaduri (Hebrew: יצחק כדורי, Arabic: يسحاق كدوري), also spelled Kadouri, Kadourie, Kedourie; "Yitzhak" (c. 1902 – 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. In his life, he published no religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 103 to 118, and his birth year is still disputed.
His funeral which was held in Jerusalem drew over half a million followers in what was described as the largest funeral in Israel's history.
He was born in Baghdad, (some say in 1902 - although his true birth year isn't known for sure), then part of the Ottoman Turkish vilayets, to Rabbi Katchouri Diba ben Aziza, who was a spice trader. This birth year was published in Mishpacha magazine from a live interview with the rabbi in 2005.
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 child student of the Ben Ish Chai (Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, d. 1909) and studied at the Zilka Yeshivah in Baghdad.
Rabbi Kaduri moved to the British Mandate of Palestine (Eretz Israel, the Holy Land) in 1923 upon the advice of the elders of Baghdad, who hoped that his scholarship and piety would stop the incursion of Zionism in the post-World War I state. It was here that he changed his name from Diba to Kaduri.
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