ABSTRACT
If you ask an Orthodox Jew about Rabbi Kaduri, he will probably talk about him with great respect and hope for an early arrival of the Messiah, which the rabbi predicted. However, Rabbi Kaduri was famous not only because of this prophecy, but also because he was an important scholar and mystic, and at the end of his long life he also connected himself with the religious party Shas and thus with Israeli politics. Among religious Jews of all rites there are still many people who claim that they were witnesses of the rabbi's wondrous and sometimes almost borderline miraculous deeds (Schneider, 2013). But on the other hand, some important rabbis such as his Sephardic colleague Ovadia Yosef belittled his alleged miraculous abilities (Wagner, 2006). He is also known for his political activities, which sometimes turned out to be quite controversial.
