Sephardic Jews (Sferdim) are the Jews Weavers They differ in doctrine for Western Jews or (Ashkenazi)
, and those who back the first origins of the Jews of Iberia (Spain and Portugal) who were expelled in the fifteenth century, and dispersed in North Africa and Asia Minor and the Levant, many of whom were from nationals of the Ottoman Empire in the areas under their control, and had their own language is the Ladino language and was a combination of the Latin language and containing Hebrew words, but they spoke the languages of the country, which Astotnoha, such as Arabic, Turkish and Italian.
And Sfard (ספרד) name of the city in Asia Minor have been linked to Spain by mistake, Vtorgomt word in the Targum (Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch) to «Aspamia», and «Spamia», while in Alepeshita (Syriac translation of the Pentateuch) are «Spain ». Starting from the eighth century AD, it became the word «Sfard» is the Hebrew word used to refer to Spain. The word is used nowadays to refer to the Jews who originally lived in Spain and Portugal, compared to Ashkenazim who were living in Germany, France and most of Europe
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In Israel there are Oriental Hakhmah (highest religious authority) has under its banner all the Jews from the rest of the Eastern communities is Ambassradah any non-Jews who were exiled from Andalusia They Alboukharion and Yemenis and the Jews and the Jews of Mesopotamia Bombay.
Rabbi "Shlomo Moshe Amar" Moroccan origin is the greatest rabbi in Israel and was preceded by the Iraqi knead "Ovadia Yosef."
There are about 12,000 of them in Spain and currently only about 500 in Portugal