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The Ari Synagogue is situated on Ohr ha-Chaim Street in the Jewish Quarter
Jewish Quarter

The Jewish Quarter is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. The 45,000 square meter area lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Cardo in the north and extends to the Western W...
 of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located on the ground floor of a building which also houses the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue
Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue

The Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue is situated on Ohr ha-Chaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located on the top floor of a building which also houses the the Ari Synagogue and Old Yishuv Court Museum....
 and Old Yishuv Court Museum. It is named after Rabbi Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Judaism mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in the town of Safed in 16th century Ottoman Palestine....
, (1534-1572), who was known as the Ari (; trans:
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
 The Lion), an acronym for haEloqi Rabbeinu Yitzhak (the divine, our master, Isaac).






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The Ari Synagogue is situated on Ohr ha-Chaim Street in the Jewish Quarter
Jewish Quarter

The Jewish Quarter is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. The 45,000 square meter area lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Cardo in the north and extends to the Western W...
 of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located on the ground floor of a building which also houses the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue
Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue

The Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue is situated on Ohr ha-Chaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located on the top floor of a building which also houses the the Ari Synagogue and Old Yishuv Court Museum....
 and Old Yishuv Court Museum. It is named after Rabbi Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Judaism mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in the town of Safed in 16th century Ottoman Palestine....
, (1534-1572), who was known as the Ari (; trans:
Translation

Translation is the hermeneutics of the Meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an Dynamic and formal equivalence text, likewise called a "translation," that communicates the same message in another language....
 The Lion), an acronym for haEloqi Rabbeinu Yitzhak (the divine, our master, Isaac). He was a great kabbalist who founded a new school in Kabbalistic thought, known as the "System of the Ari" or "Lurianic kabbalah
Isaac Luria

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Judaism mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in the town of Safed in 16th century Ottoman Palestine....
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Origins

According to tradition, it was in this building where Rabbi Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Judaism mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in the town of Safed in 16th century Ottoman Palestine....
 was born and where he lived for 20 years. It is told that Eliyahu Ha-Navi was the sandek
Sandek

Sandek is the term for a person honored at a Judaism brit milah ceremony, traditionally either by holding the baby boy on the knees or thighs while the mohel performs the brit milah or by handing the baby to the mohel....
 at his Brit milah
Brit milah

Brit milah , also berit milah , bris milah or bris is a religious ceremony within Judaism to welcome infant Jewish boys into a covenant between Names of God in Judaism and the Children of Israel through ritual circumcision performed by a mohel , on the eighth day of the child's life unless health reasons or certain spe...
. At some stage, the room of his traditional birthplace became a Sephardic synagogue. The Jews of the yishuv
Yishuv

Yishuv or Ha-Yishuv A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah of 1882 by the Zionist movement....
 were forbidden by Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 Law to establish any new synagogues. This led to inconspicuous prayer houses which, like the Ari Synagogue, were located in residential homes. During the riots of 1936 the synagogue was looted and burned.

See also

  • Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue
    Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue

    The Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue is located in Safed, Israel. Built in the sixteenth century, the synagogue is named after Rabbi Isaac Luria, , who was known as the Ari , an acronym for Adoneinu Rabbeinu Isaac ....