Rav Yehuda Yehoshua Tzadka

Rav Yehuda Yehoshua Tzadka was Rosh Yeshiva of Porat Yosef. Born in Yerushalayim, Rav Yehuda was a great-great-grandson of Rav Tzadka Chutzin, mechaber of Tzedoka U’Mishpot. His mother, Simcha, was the Ben Ish Chai’s niece. The Tzadka family lived in the Bais Yisrael neighborhood of Yerushalayim. When he was twelve years old, Yehuda Tzadka enrolled in the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in the Old City. There, he became very close to Rav Ezra Attia. At the age of only twenty-seven, he was appointed to teach at the Yeshiva. Among Rav Yehuda’s first students was Rav Ovadia Yosef. In time, Rav Yehuda became the Menahel Ruchani, and with the petira of Rav Ezra Attia in 1970, he was appointed as the new Rosh Yeshiva.