The Basheva Magazine discussed a mysterious rov known as the Orchosecha Lamdeinu, who has answered thousands of halachashailos by email, reviewed numerous articles and seforim over the past fifteen years and has even published seforim. His identity is unknown.

“He is a tremendous talmid chochom,” Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef said of him, noting that his father, Rav Ovadiah Yosef, cited him in his works. “My father even asked me once, ‘Who is the Orchosecha Lamdeinu?'”

From the rov‘s replies, it has been deduced that he is of Sefardi heritage, lives in London and is a grandfather.

A family living Yerushalayim’s Sanhedria Murchevet neighborhood knows his identity and distributes his seforim free of charge. Asked why he keeps his identity secret, the mother of the family said she would ask him. A reply came via email.

“The reason is that I want to study Torah without being disturbed,” the mystery rov wrote. “I saw with several rabbis that their telephone doesn’t stop ringing with many questions and public issues and how so many people come to their homes to ask about their needs. They also have to go to the simchos of their community or talmidim every day.

“True, they help many people and do great chesed, but how can they study Torah? Therefore, I decided that all this can be done by others and I chose to study without being disturbed.”

{Matzav.com Israel News }