Mordechai Sharabi - Biography

Rabbi (or Hakham) Mordechai Sharabi (1908, Jewish Sharab, Yemen – 1983, Jerusalem, Israel) was the founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Nahar Shalom, a yeshiva for the study of the Kabbalah of the Rashash, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda.

A world-renowned kabbalist, he was accepted by the kabbalists of his time, and had the admiration of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

A set of three of his books focusing on remedies that built upon Rashash intentions from verses in selected Psalms were published posthumously.

Notable students

His student, Rabbi Benayahu Shmueli, leads Yeshivat Nahar Shalom today. Other notable students include Rabbi Meir Levi, teacher of Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok of Kollel Bnei Neviim, and Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig, spiritual leader of the Breslov Hasidim of Safed.

External links

• Jewiki (in German)