Yehoshua Sofer

Yehoshua Sofer is also the name of a victim of the June 2010 West Bank shooting.
Sofer in 2011

Yehoshua Sofer (Hebrew: יהושע סופר‬) is an Israeli martial artist]].

Biography

He was born in 1958 in Jamaica and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1963 where he studied Tang Soo Do, receiving a black belt by 1968, aged ten. He studied Kuk Sool Won from 1974, advancing to 6th dan, and worked as a trainer and bodyguard during the 1970s and 1980s. In 2000, he ran a Kuk Sool Won school at the International Convention, Jerusalem.

In 2002, he founded the Abir Warrior Arts Association of Israel, teaching his own style of "Abir-Qesheth Hebrew Warrior Arts" (אבי״ר-קשת אומנות לחימה עברית‬) in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, claiming it to be a tradition of his family dating to Israelite antiquity[1] preserved by an underground school of "Bani Abir" in Habban, Yemen, and styling himself Aluf Abir אלוף אבי״ר‬ "Grandmaster of Abir". The word אביר‬ abir in Modern Hebrew means "knight", interpreted as an acronym אבי״ר‬, for אדוננו, בוראנו, יוצרנו, רופאנו ‬ ("Our Lord, our Creator, our Maker, our Healer").

The style does incorporate prayer and the reading of texts because "Abir is a religious practice which includes Torah studies," but it does not mandate what a practitioner's personal choices are outside of the training hall.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sofer, Yehoshua; et al. "The History of Abir". Abir Hebrew Warrior Arts. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
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