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Silent study

Yosef Tolidano, despite being a descendent of dozens of generations of rabbis, saw the doors of traditional Jewish learning close before him because he was deaf. Determined to keep others from being shut out, he has opened the first kollel for deaf men in the Jewish world.

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Photo by: Courtesy Ma’aseh Nissim
The traditional doors to Jewish learning have presented an obstacle to many religious deaf people in Israel.

But Yosef Tolidano – a young deaf man descended from a long and distinguished line of Sephardi rabbis – has pulled open those doors, enabling the deaf to immerse themselves in the Talmud.

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