Yossi Banaah Synagogue
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== Kever Rabbi Yossi Banai == | == Kever Rabbi Yossi Banai == | ||
− | [[Rabbi Yossi Banaa|Rabbi Yossi Banai]] was a forth generation Tana and a renown experet in the Kabbalistic mysteries regarding the creation of the world. He was buried along the mountainside of Tzfat and later the synagogue was built around his kever. His Tzyiun is located in a small room on the right side of the shul, underneath the women's section | + | [[Rabbi Yossi Banaa|Rabbi Yossi Banai]] was a forth generation Tana and a renown experet in the Kabbalistic mysteries regarding the creation of the world. He was buried along the mountainside of Tzfat and later the synagogue was built around his kever. His Tzyiun is located in a small room on the right side of the shul, underneath the women's section. |
== Miracle of the White Chickens == | == Miracle of the White Chickens == | ||
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== Smicha - Rabbinical Ordination == | == Smicha - Rabbinical Ordination == | ||
− | The Tzadik HaLavan synagogue played another important role in Tzfat with an unusual ordination of Tzfat’s greatest 16th century rabbis. | + | The Tzadik HaLavan synagogue played another important role in Tzfat with an unusual ordination of Tzfat’s greatest 16th century rabbis. Rabbi Ya’akov Beirav, Safed’s Chief Rabbi during the early 16th century, wanted to reinstate “smicha,” the ordination of rabbis to the Sanhedrin. True smicha had been dissolved when the Sanhedrin dispersed during the Roman exile but Rabbi Beirav felt that the time had come to reestablish the authority that would unite the Jewish World and, he believed, bring the messiah. Tzfat’s rabbinical establishment supported Rabbi Beirav and ordained him, paving the way for him to bestow ordination on the great Tzfat rabbis, [[Rabbi Yosef Karo|Rabbi Yosef Caro]], Rabbi Moshe Metrani, Rabbi Moshe Galante, and Rabbi Moshe Cordovero. This ceremony took place at the Tzaddik HaLavan synagogue. Subsequently, worldwide rabbinical condemnations and refusal to accept the reenactment of the Sanhedrin doomed the move and the initiative died out. |
== The Synagogue == | == The Synagogue == | ||
− | The Tzaddik HaLavan synagogue is located one level up from the | + | The Tzaddik HaLavan synagogue is located one level up from the ancient Tzfat cemetery, above the [[Ari Sephardi Synagogue]]. Visitors walk through through a courtyard to enter the synagogue whose interior is blue, a Kabbalistic motif reminiscent of the heavens. The raised center “Bima” -- central prayer area -- is next to an Elijah’s chair which is used for circumcision ceremonies. Visitors will see painted etchings of biblical instruments along the ceiling’s arches. A local family, the Shabbabos, care for the synagogue and open it for Sabbath prayers. The prayer service is conducted in the Sepharadi tradition. |