[Avodah] R' Ovadiah Yosef re candle-lighting

[Zev Sero]

On 8/2/07, Chana Luntz <chana at kolsassoon.org.uk> wrote:

>> (Is he saying that our GRANDMOTHERS tried to learn Torah and
>> misunderstood what they learned?)
>
> Yup.  At least if you are related the the Falks of Prisha U'Drisha fame,
> I would guess (dates anyone?).

Just parachuting in to say that Falk was not the Drisha's family name, it was
his Yiddish name.  Yehoshua-Falk is a paired name, just like Yehuda-Leib or
Tzvi-Hirsh.  If his family had a name at all, I don't think we know what it was.

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Zev Sero
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