http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/24980/chacham-ovadia-yosef-sitting-shiva-for-brother.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/24980/chacham-ovadia-yosef-sitting-shiva-for-brother.html#comment-105589 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:38:09 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=24980#comment-105589 More precisely, his original name was Ovadia Yosef ben Yaacov ben Ovadia. In Iraq they didn’t really have a family name. When his parents came to EY, the family of Yaacov (ben) Ovadia became known as the Ovadia family. But because ROY had two names of his own, over time his second name became his family name.

]]> http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/24980/chacham-ovadia-yosef-sitting-shiva-for-brother.html#comment-105548 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:19:16 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=24980#comment-105548 # 1 Chacham Ovadia name “WAS” Ovadia Ovadia later on in his life he changed it to Ovadia Yoseph but his family (Brothers) kept the original last name.
So it is not a mistake his brothers name really was Avraham Ovadia Z”L…

]]> http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/24980/chacham-ovadia-yosef-sitting-shiva-for-brother.html#comment-105479 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:27:54 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=24980#comment-105479 No offense, but I think Chacham Ovadia’s brother’s last name is probably Yoseph and not Ovadia. Just wanted to correct the common mistake.

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