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The translation kapach is a lot more common amoungst ashkenazim. 203.214.151.141 23:55, 12 August 2007 (UTC) Qafih is much closer to how he pronounced his own name. Same goes with his family and the majority of his students. Accuracy in Hebrew pronunciation was important to him, and continues to be something unique among Yemenite Jews. He would've loved for Ashkenazim to have learned from this. Indeed, there are great Ashkenazi posqim who themselves called for Ashkenazim to improve their pronunciation of Hebrew.
R. Avraham Yishaq Hakohen Kook, (the leading Ashkenazi Rabbi in this country 70 years ago), states that "the essential aspect of any pronunciation is the distinction it provides between letters and vowels, and in this respect the Sepharadi pronunciation cannot equal the Ashkenazi, and even more so the Yemenite pronunciation which is superior to both, in that it differentiates more than the other two..." (Orah Mishpat p. 20).
The words of R. Ya'aqov Kaminetzky (in a letter of approbation to the book Safa Berura on the subject of the pronunciation of Hebrew, reprinted in the excellent book Qosht Imre Emeth, on the same subject, p.14): "It is very important to clarify the truth...I know that many will say 'Who is this person who wishes to introduce new things [pronunciations] such as these? As a certain person once said to me after I pointed out to him that our pronounciation of the undotted daleth is plainly incorrect [as explained above]: 'Do you imagine that the Hidushe HaRim [a great Tora sage of the last century] did not read Shema properly?' I replied that he certainly performed his obligation b'diavad. It is also possible that he himself read it entirely correctly, but could not influence the conduct of the entire community...But if only a few will pay heed [to what you have written], it will have been worthwhile".
See more: http://machonshilo.org/content/view/12/69/
72.150.251.248 ( talk) 03:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, but nobody looking for information about this rabbi will ever think to type in Qafih. The article should be Yosef Kapah, as he is referred to in the sources and he is known to the public in Israel. If someone objects to that, there should at least be a redirect. His wife was also known as Rabbanit Kapah. -- Gilabrand ( talk) 13:58, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
User:Contributor613, I'm very sorry if this comes to you as disappointing, but making a very long list of published works in a main article is very sloppy. It is far better to put such long lists in a collapsible window, as it keeps the center of attention on the individual and his background. To by-pass the "Published works" in table of contents, we can re-word the sub-section in table of contents. Davidbena ( talk) 20:20, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Toward the end of the biography section, the article reads that he "presided over the Yemenite community in Jerusalem, as well as spreading Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook's teachings among the Israeli Sephardi populace. citation needed" The portion regarding "spreading Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook's teachings among the Israeli Sephardi populace" has been marked as requiring citation to reliable sources since July 2011. This has gone unsupported for a very long time now, so unless someone can cite a source for this it'll be deleted. I'll wait until July 2016 (which will mark 5 years--more than enough time--since the citation request) though if someone wants to delete it sooner I'm not opposed. Truth to be told, I'm just giving this notice as a courtesy as this seems to be far from the reality of his emphasis on spreading Yemenite/Maimonidean teachings. Contributor613 ( talk) 02:54, 3 January 2016 (UTC) Deleted. I found that the addition was by an IP user long since inactive, so no reason to wait any more. Contributor613 ( talk) 00:52, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
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Seeing as the "Legacy" section at the end of the article seems like it may be overlooked among the preceding material, I will move the section to precede the list of Published works. Though I'm not happy to do so, considering that Rabbi Qafih's published works preceded his legacy, I think that having the sections a bit chronologically out of order makes more sense than having an important section possibly missed by readers. I see this convention was also implemented in the Abraham Isaac Kook article (and probably other such entries as well). Contributor613 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:26, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
While this article can use more biographical details, what's more important is beginning a section highlighting halakhic rulings of his (see for example here and here on the Hebrew Wiki). This would probably be a uniquely difficult endeavor considering that much of his halakhic focus was on explaining Maimonides, such that much of "his" rulings are in turn explanations of the Rambam. While these explanations are worthy of noting, in any case there is nothing now and not many people are gifted enough to even give this a good start. @ Davidbena:? Contributor613 ( talk)