The chair from which the late renowned rabbi and scholar Ovadia Yosef led his weekly learning sessions is for sale and it could fetch a handsome six-figure sum.
The haredi news site Kikar Shabbat reported Wednesday that the chair had been transferred to a security company after it was feared that it would be stolen.
According to Kikar Shabbat, which called the chair "mythological," it is being sold in order to support the learning center of Rabbi Yoseph Shraga that is housed in the late Yosef's Jerusalem synagogue. The learning center has hit financial difficulties and its management hopes that the chair's sale will prevent its closure, according to the report.
The haredi site estimated the chair's value at 200,000 shekels but said it would likely be sold in the 100,000 shekel range. (Photo: The late Rabbi Ovadia's Chair, Credit: Yishai Cohen, Kikar Shabbat)