He also admits his error in terms of what he wrote regarding the Haham Bashi (the chief Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire). R. Yosef Yedid Halevi was a student of R. Avraham Ades in Aram Soba (Aleppo). Towards the end of his life, R. Yosef Yedid Halevi was the revered head of the rabbinical court of the Bucharim and Aram Soba communities in Yerushalayim. He had been born, however, to a poverty-stricken family. His father, Rabbi Mordechai, was an honest man, who taught young schoolchildren, from the age when they first begin reading through their study of Humash. He knew proficiently and by heart the entire Tanach and its Arabic translation. Tragically, however, he lost his eyesight and could no longer oversee the children's studies. To continue earning a livelihood, he appointed his son, who was then still a youngster, in his place. The blind father would sit and whisper the chapters of Tehillim, which he knew fluently by heart, as his son, Yosef, taught the children to read from morning to night. Yosef longed to study Torah and engage in the intensive learning of Gemara, but he was bound to his father's work to support his family, and his father could not hire a tutor to teach him Gemara.

One evening the great Rabbi Shaul Kassin walked through the streets of the city and saw the young Yosef Yedid quickly sneak into the Bet Kenesset. He followed him and saw the boy approach the aron hakodesh, open its doors, and break out in bitter crying. He went over to the lad and asked him why he cried so bitterly. The boy told him that every day he cries before the aron kodesh over not having the opportunity to progress in Torah learning because of his family's financial troubles. The sage heard the story and said, "You can stop crying. There is no doubt that the Creator brought me here because your prayers have been answered." He found wealthy benefactors who generously supported the family to enable the young man to study Torah undisturbed day and night, guided by kollel students who were hired to learn with him. Am Yisrael thus merited this great luminary and his important works - "Torat Hacham" and "Yemei Yosef."

R. Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, known as "Yis"a Berachah" ("Yis"a" is the acronym for "Yaakov Shaul Elyashar"), was born in Tsefat.. His father died before his seventh birthday, and after several orphan years of poverty his mother married the "Benei Binyamin" (R. Benjamin Nabon) who raised Yaakov as a son. R. Nabon ultimately became R. Yaakov's closest rebbe. He even married him off and supported him for twenty-four years, until R. Yaakov emerged as one of the gedolim of Jerusalem. He was elected as head of the Bet Din of Jerusalem. Twenty-four years later he was appointed Rishon Lessiyon and served his role with dignity until his passing on the 28th of Tammuz, 5666. After his death, the "Givat Shaul" neighborhood in Jerusalem was established in his name. R. Elyashar published his step-father's book, Bene Binyamin, together with his own work, Kerev Ish in Jerusalem in 1877.