 He began to be more vociferous about the people's neglect of Halacha for more mystical matters.It was around this time that he augmented the Dor Deʻah movement in Orthodox Judaism, to counter the influence of Lurianic Kabbalah and restore the rational approach to Judaism, such as is represented by the thought of Maimonides and Sa'adiah Gaon, and to encourage strict adherence to the Halakha as formulated in the Mishneh Torah.However, the innovations and textual readings enacted by Rabbi Qafih in his "Beit midrash" were the main cause for the schism in Sanaa's Jewish community, a schism that was fanned perpetually by "highly spirited youth."