Shas Chairman, Minister Aryeh Deri, visited the homes of Israel's great leaders to invite them to his daughter's wedding, which will take place in about two weeks in Jerusalem.
During his visit to the President of the Council of Torah Sages, Hacham Shalom Cohen, he discussed with him for long minutes the issues at hand, especially matters of education and strengthening and fortifying the sanctity of the Sabbath.
The Grand Rabbi Steinman was very happy to welcome him and bestowed a special blessing on his efforts to maintain unity in the Haredi community.
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Rabbi Kanievsky blessed Deri that he would be blessed to continue to sanctify the name of heaven.
During his visit to the Garav Povarsky, Deri revealed why he named his bride Batsheva Margalit. "We had a son and then several daughters. I went to the Maran Rabbi Ovadia and told him: I want a son. The Maran told me: Call her Batsheva - and it is a virtue that if you call her that, then a son will come later. And so it was.
""I named her Batsheva and also added the name Margalit after the Rebbetzin, may God bless her, who passed away at that time, and, God bless her, a son was born to us afterwards.".
During his visit to the Rebbe of Vizhnitz, the issue of unity in the Haredi community was raised again. The Rebbe also emphasized that this should also help and promote solutions to the housing crisis in the Haredi community.
In a conversation with the Rabbi Tzedakah, Deri recalled the days when he studied at Porat Yosef, and said that he used to study every Friday night all night - and in the morning the Rabbi would call him and sit with him over a shopping list, which needed to be bought for the boys for Shabbat. "He had a special humility," Deri said when the Rabbi Tzedakah pointed out to him that this study every Friday night still takes place in the Porat Yosef yeshiva hall in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem.
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