Tzfat Synagogues
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== Old Synagogues == | == Old Synagogues == | ||
=== Abuhav === | === Abuhav === | ||
− | [[File:00000155-courtyard-abuhav-synagogue.jpg|File:00000156 earthquake ruins abuhov synagogue.jpg|thumb|180px|right|The Abuhav Shul]] Rabbi Yitzchock Abuhav was a Spanish Rabbi who's students immigrated to Tzfat at the end of the 15th century, immediately after the Jews were expelled from Spain. Tsfat legend mentions that Rabbi Abuhav built the | + | [[File:00000155-courtyard-abuhav-synagogue.jpg|File:00000156 earthquake ruins abuhov synagogue.jpg|thumb|180px|right|The Abuhav Shul]] Rabbi Yitzchock Abuhav was a Spanish Rabbi who's students immigrated to Tzfat at the end of the 15th century, immediately after the Jews were expelled from Spain. Tsfat legend mentions that Rabbi Abuhav built the [[Abuhav Synagogue]] in Spain and his students mystically transported it to Tzfat when they came to Israel. Others adhere to the tradition that Rabbi Abuhav planned the synagogue in Spain and it was built by his followers upon their arrived in Israel. Rabbi Abuhav hand-wrote a Torah scroll which is still used in the synagogue on special holidays. The synagogue was originally built near the ARI Sepharadi synagogue but after it was destroyed in the [[Safed 1759 Earthquake|1759 earthquake]], survivors rebuilt the synagogue higher up on the mountain, in its present location between Abuhav and Alkabetz Streets. Others maintain that had always been its location. In [[Safed 1837 Earthquake|1837 an earthquake]] again destroyed the synagogue but the Ark, holding Rabbi Abuhav’s ancient Torah scroll as well as two other old scrolls, did not collapse. The synagogue was rebuilt surrounding this original southern wall. During the [[Safed Second Lebanon War|Second Lebanon War]] in 2006 a katyusha rocket landed directly next to the synagogue alongside the southern wall but again, the Ark and its Torah scrolls were untouched. |
[[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Abuhav Synagogue]]''' | [[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Abuhav Synagogue]]''' | ||
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=== ARI Sepharadi === | === ARI Sepharadi === | ||
− | + | The ARI Sepharadi is one of the oldest standing synagogues in Safed. It is perched on the road above the ancient Safed cemetery and overlooks the cemetery and surrounding valley. The synagogue was called the “Eliyahu Hanavi” (Elijah the Prophet) synagogue when the [[Rabbi Yitzchak Luria|ARI]] came to live in Tzfat in the [[Ottoman Rule of Safed 1517 to 1759|16th century]]. The ARI prayed and studied in the synagogue, sitting, legend says, with Elijah the Prophet in a small room within the synagogue as he expanded on the existing knowledge of Kabbalah through Divine Inspiration. After the ARI’s passing the residents of Tzfat renamed the synagogue “ARI Sepharadi” in honor of the ARIZL. | |
[[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Ari Sephardi Synagogue]]''' | [[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Ari Sephardi Synagogue]]''' | ||
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=== Avritch / Bat Ayin === | === Avritch / Bat Ayin === | ||
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[[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Beirav-Synagogue-Safed|Beirav Synagogue]]''' | [[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Beirav-Synagogue-Safed|Beirav Synagogue]]''' | ||
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+ | === Joseph Caro === | ||
+ | [[Rabbi Yosef Karo|Rabbi Joseph Caro]] came to Tzfat in the early 1500s from Turkey. His family had escaped the Inquisition in Spain. Rabbi Caro worried that, in the face of the dispersion caused by the Inquisition, Jews would not know how to perform the Jewish rituals and traditions according to Jewish Law. He sat in a small room and wrote the “[[Shulchan Aruch|Shulhan Aruch]].” The Shulhan Aruch guides Jews in the performance of the commandments of the Jewish religion. The Joseph Caro synagogue, on Alkabetz Street, stands above the room where Rabbi Caro wrote the Shulhan Aruch. It served as the Rabbinical Court over which Rabbi Caro presided and later as a study hall. Today it houses a Sepharadi minyan. | ||
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+ | [[File:more.jpg|link=]] '''Read full Zissil article on the [[Yosef-Caro-Synagogue-Safed|Yosef Caro Synagogue]]''' | ||
=== Yossi Banai === | === Yossi Banai === |