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[quote=Anonymous]Yitzhak Kaduri (Hebrew: יצחק כדורי, Arabic: إسحاق قدوري), also spelled Kadouri, Kadourie, Kedourie; "Yitzhak" (c. 1898 – 28 January 2006), was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people. He taught and practiced the kavanot of the Rashash. His blessings and amulets were also widely sought to cure people of illnesses and infertility. In his life, he published no religious articles or books. At the time of his death, estimates of his age ranged from 103 to 108, and his birth year is still disputed.

In January 2006, Rabbi Kaduri was hospitalized with pneumonia in the Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem. He died at around 10 p.m. January 28, 2006 (29 Tevet 5766). He was alert and lucid until his last day.

An estimated 500,000 people took part in his funeral procession on January 29, which started from the Nachalat Yitzchak Yeshivah and wound its way through the streets of Jerusalem to the Givat Shaul cemetery (also known as Har HaMenuchot) near the entrance to the city of Jerusalem.

Before his death, Kaduri had said that he expected the Mashiach, the Jewish Messiah, to arrive soon, and that he had met him a year earlier. Some of his followers claimed that he left them a hand-written note and they were reportedly instructed to only open the note after Rabbi Kaduri had been dead for one year. After this time period had passed, the note was supposedly opened by these followers and was found to read, "ירים העם ויוכיח שדברו ותורתו עומדים‎" (Yarim ha-am veyokhiakh shedvaro vetorato omdim; translated as "he will raise the people and confirm that his word and law are standing"), which, by taking the first letter of each word, reads יהושוע‎, "Yehoshua". Such acrostics are a well recognised phenomenon in the Tanakh.

Many religious Jews and counter missionaries discredit the note as a Messianic Jewish forgery.[citation needed]

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