Meir Mazuz

 ( 1945 Births ) 

The yeshiva became an elite institution that, apart from producing knowledgeable scholars, sought to make them into leading rabbis. It follows the traditional approach to learning done in Tunisia for centuries. The yeshiva later started its own press, the (Mechon HaRav Matsliah) that prints the works of R. Matsliah Mazuz as well as other Jerban or Tunisian scholars, and siddur and tikkunim based on the customs of Jerba. The yeshiva is connected to seven for Sephardic children throughout the country.

Mazuz died in 19 April 2025 after a long battle with illness and a deterioration in his health. He was 80. Sephardic Haredi leader Rabbi Meir Mazuz dies at 80 His funeral was attended by thousands. His brother Tsemah will succeed him as the dean of Kisse Rahamim.

Mazuz strongly encouraged the study of dikduk and of pronouncing the words in prayer and study with precision and clarity. He himself would speak in a highly traditional pronunciation even in his everyday speech. Part of the "Tunisian approach" he taught involves accounting for and understanding the purpose and meaning of every single word of the text being studied.

Mazuz was strongly homophobic, blaming COVID-19 and Meron disaster on Homosexuality Mazuz was also extremely Anti-Arab racism, he made comments in 2023 in support of Baruch Goldstein, the Jewish doctor who killed 29 Palestinian worshipers in Hebron in 1994, saying that the mass murder prevented a disaster because “the Arabs put axes, guns and knives under their prayer rugs. There was a big danger. The danger was averted thanks to that Jew.”

• Commentary on R. Yehuda ha-Levi's piyyut Mi Kamocha ;
• Shut Bayit Ne'eman (3 vols.), responsa ;
• Bayit Ne'eman, comments on the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus, including notes on Targum Onkelos and the cantillation ;
• Shut Makor Ne'eman, responsa ;
• Arim Nissi, collection of hiddushim on various tractates studied in Kisse Rahamim ;
• Lo Tashich, hiddushim on the fifth chapter of Bava Metzia, Ezehu Neshech ;
• An additional collection of hiddushim on Tractate Kiddushin, published in Et haz-Zamir, 5783 ;
• Le-Ukme Girsa, notes on the order of prayers ;
• Le-Ukme Girsa, glosses on Targum Onkelos ;
• Sho'el Umeshiv, responsa intended on teaching how to write responsa, published in Ohr Torah, the journal of Kisse Rahamim ;
• A collection of biographical articles on Tunisian Jewish sages ;
• Kisse Ham-Melech, notes on Rambam, with commentary on his Mussar Epistle ;
• Solet Nekiyya, laws of the Hebrew calendar.

In addition, there was a weekly publication named Bayit Ne'eman based on his popular lectures.