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    The Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת אור החיים) is situated on Ohr ha-Chaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located...
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    Judges, Samuel, and Isaiah. Chaim Joseph David Azulai Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Michael, Or ha-hayyim, No. 894; Benjacob, Otzar ha-Sefarim, p. 541; Luncz, in...
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    The Hurva Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת החורבה, translit: Beit ha-Knesset ha-Hurva, lit. "The Ruin Synagogue"), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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  • Ohr (Hebrew: אור, romanized: ʾor, lit. 'Light', plural: אורות ʾoroṯ) is a central Kabbalistic term in Jewish mysticism. The analogy of physical light...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    the tunnel. This sealed-off entrance was for hundreds of years a small synagogue called "The Cave", where the early Muslims allowed the Jews to pray in...
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    community also has a synagogue in the "new city", located in the Ohel Moshe neighborhood of Nahlaot. Ari Synagogue Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Karaite Judaism Karaite...
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    Lions' Gate (Hebrew: שער האריות, romanized: Sha'ar ha-Arayot, lit. 'Lions' Gate', Arabic: باب الأسباط, romanized: Bab al-Asbat, lit. 'Gate of the Tribes')...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    Sephardic Synagogues are a complex of four adjoining synagogues located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The four synagogues include...
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    located on the ground floor of a building which also houses the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue and Old Yishuv Court Museum. It is named after Rabbi Isaac Luria...
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    Chabad rebbes. The Malachim's first and only rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Avraham Dov Ber Levine haCohen (1859/1860–1938), also known as "The Malach" (lit. "the...
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    The New Gate (Arabic: باب الجديد Bāb ij-Jdïd) (Hebrew: השער החדש HaSha'ar HeChadash) is the newest of the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built...
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    open. That building remains in use now. Founded under the umbrella of Ohr HaChaim in 1993, Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun is a four-year high school whose curriculum...
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    Shneur (or Shne'or) is a Yiddish composite of the two Hebrew words "shnei ohr" (שני אור "two lights"). He is also known as Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch,...
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    Mordechai Weingarten (category Burials at Har HaMenuchot)
    moved to the Old City in 1813 and lived in the courtyard of the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue, on the way to the Armenian Quarter, for five generations. In 1912...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    Ramban Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת הרמב"ן‎) is the second oldest active synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, after only the Karaite Synagogue. It dates...
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    Zohar (redirect from Sefer Ha-Zohar)
    information on contents and sections of the Zohar is found in the book Ohr haZohar(אור הזוהר) by Rabbi Yehuda Shalom Gross, in Hebrew, published by Mifal...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    35°13′56″E / 31.775369°N 35.232339°E / 31.775369; 35.232339 Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת תפארת ישראל; Ashkenazi Hebrew: Tiferes Yisroel), most...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    Noah Weinberg (1930–2009), co-founder of Yeshivas Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem; founder of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah Yaakov Weinberg (1923–1999), rosh yeshiva of...
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  • on Tikunei haZohar. The more noted ones include: Ohr Yakar by the Ramak (Moses ben Jacob Cordovero), Kisse Melekh by Shalom Buzaglo, Ohr Yisrael by Yisrael...
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  • denoted as "light", similarly manifests in two levels of Ohr Sovev (transcendent) and Ohr Mimalei (immanent). First the light creates the vessels, then...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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    Orthodox Jewish Ramban Synagogue Ari Synagogue Four Sephardic Synagogues Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue Tzuf Dvash Synagogue Hurva Synagogue Ohel Yitzchak Synagogue...
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  • (1889–1969), rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaMekubalim/Beit El Synagogue, recipient of the Israel Prize in rabbinical literature Chaim Hirschensohn (1857–1935), prolific...
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