Ari Synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel - Old Yishuv Court Museum
Friday, 19 August 2011 20:41
http://hainanwel.com/en/israel/853-ari-synagogue.htmlAri Synagogue located on Or HaHaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, where was born in 1534, the famous Kabbalist Isaac Luria (ARI), a founder of the Lurianic Kabbalah. Ari Synagogue is also known as "Weingarten House" – in the house located an exhibition of the history museum "Old Yishuv Court", address indicated on the map above. In the museum visitors can see the writing materials used in the writing of texts from the Torah, photographs and paintings from the life of Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi, and provides clothing and hats of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews: the black long-skirted coats and shiny dark gray with black stripes gowns, Turkish fez and red hat trimmed with fur. In 1948, on the doorstep of the Ari Synagogue was a unique event in Jewish history - the first time in 1,800 years the key to the Zion Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem was handed over to the Jewish Chief Rabbi Mordechai Weingarten. Get to the Ari Synagogue in Jerusalem can be using the map, which shown at the top of this article- simply show it to any taxi driver in Jerusalem.