The Maharshal's Synagogue (Polish: Synagoga Maharszala), also known as the Great Lublin Synagogue (Yiddish: מהרשל־שול), was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation...

Mühlhausen Original parochet from Great Lublin Maharshal's Synagogue from 1926, today in Bielsko-Biała synagogue, Poland Early-17th-century parochet from Cairo...

Maharam's Synagogue was built near the end of the 16th or in the beginning of the 17th centuries, as a building clinging to the southern wall of Maharshal's Synagogue...

Monday, Thursday, and Monday successively, at the regular service in the synagogue. During the period of niddui, no one except the members of his immediate...

translated by Rabbi Jules Harlow, The Rabbinical Assembly/The United Synagogue of America, New York, 1989, p. 712 The first word, בָּרוּךְ (barukh),...

wife died young, at the age of 20 and he later established the "Rema Synagogue" in Kraków in her memory (originally his house, built by his father in...

was deeply offended. He writes that he wanted to embarrass him in the synagogue of Lublin and to convene with the leaders of the communities to demote...

Rabbi of Moscow and the Moscow Choral Synagogue Mavro Frankfurter (1875–1942), Croatian rabbi of the Vinkovci Synagogue who was murdered during the Holocaust...

learnt together in yeshivah with the Maharshal who was 17, 2 years his elder. He learnt together with the Maharshal and Rema for a further 3 years. Rav...

her. This miraculous niche is still visible in the wall of the Worms Synagogue. Additional legends, particularly in Hasidic literature, postulate that...

analysis of previously written Talmudic commentaries. Well known are "Maharshal" (Solomon Luria), "Maharam" (Meir Lublin) and "Maharsha" (Samuel Edels)...

Reform synagogue and in many Conservative synagogues. His responsum on this question was also directed at the small number of Orthodox synagogues that were...

for prayer, noon, sunset, and nightfall, following the approach of the Maharshal. Regarding twilight, he follows the opinion of Rabbeinu Tam and believes...

the only surviving original object from the demolished the oldest synagogue of Maharshal in Lublin. It was a parochet from 1926, which is now preserved in...

On 14 June 1931, he was appointed rabbi of Lublin in the old synagogue of the Maharshal. Shapiro introduced the revolutionary idea of Daf Yomi (Hebrew:...

Commonwealth. 1572 – A synagogue opens in Vilnius. 1592 – A pogrom breaks out Vilnius. Jewish businesses and homes, in addition to the synagogue, are destroyed...

the town's beth midrash (study hall), which was usually adjacent to the synagogue. Their cost of living was covered by community taxation. After a number...

into many chapters and paragraphs: Orach Chayim – laws of prayer and synagogue, Sabbath, holidays Yoreh De'ah – laws of kashrut; conversion to Judaism;...

the 2nd century) uses the expression esnoga, a Portuguese term for the synagogue gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel points, which were not...

this time. Jews established a widely respected yeshiva, Jewish hospital, synagogue, cemetery, and education centre (kahal) and built the Grodzka Gate (known...

Pnei Yehoshua, the Mordechai, the Chiddushia HaRitva, the Meiri, the Maharshal's Chochmas Shlomo and Yam Shel Shlomo, the Meir Einei Chachmamim, the Kehillos...

slaughterhouse. The deportees were led on foot from the Great Synagogue (named after the Maharshal), which served as a gathering place for the deportees. Aged...

Elizabeth commented that in most places the residents would erect separate synagogues for different factions, but Rabbi Teitz kept them united. In 1914, Rabbi...

slaughterhouse. The deportees were led on foot from the Great Synagogue (named after the Maharshal), which served as a gathering place for the deportees. Elderly...