Yihhyah Qafahh
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Yihhyah Qafahh was a prominent Yemenite rabbi of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He founded the Dor Dai movement in Judaism, which was intended to combat the influence of the Lurianic Kabbalah and restore the rational approach of Maimonides and the Jewish law as codified by him.
His main work was the Milhamot Hashem, in which he argues that the Zohar is not authentic and that the beliefs of the Lurianic Kabbalah are idolatrous.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky has stated his work Milhamot Hashem to be heresy.[1]
Rabbi Yihhyah's grandson was Rabbi Yosef Qafahh or Kapach, who was a prominent leader of the Yemenite community in Israel.
[edit] References
- ^ Derech Amunah Tshuvas p30
[edit] External links
Online text of the Milhamot Hashem
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