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Old Yishuv Court Museum
The museum interior, in 2021
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Established1967 (1967)
Location6 Or HaChaim Street, Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem, Israel
Coordinates31°46′31.1″N 35°13′49.0″E / 31.775306°N 35.230278°E / 31.775306; 35.230278
TypeEthnographic museum
Websitewww.oyc.co.il/en/
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The Old Yishuv Court Museum is an ethnographic museum on Or HaHaim Street in the Jewish Quarter of Old City of Jerusalem. It showcases the traditional lifestyle of the Jewish Old Yishuv community during the late Ottoman and Mandatory periods, leading up to the fall of the Jewish Quarter to the Jordanian army in the 1948 War of Independence.

The museum complex includes the Ari Synagogue, an old Sephardic synagogue associated with and named after 16th century kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria. Another part of the complex, on the second floor, houses the Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue, which was formerly used by the Italian and Sephardic communities and now follows Ashkenazi nusach, though it is not part of the museum and has a separate entrance.

Museum

The Old Yishuv Court Museum showcases the history of the Jewish community in Jerusalem from the mid-19th century to the Mandatory period. Located in one of the oldest and most well-known courtyards in the Jewish Quarter, it was home to the families of F"h and Rosental, early pupils of Vilna Gaon, for five generations after their arrival in the 19th century. During the Mandatory period, Rabbi A. Mordechai Weingarten's family lived there until the fall of the Jewish Quarter to the Arab Legion in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After Jerusalem's reunification, the Weingarten family returned.

Rebuilt and adapted into a museum after the Six-Day War, the museum depicts daily life, customs, and typical works of the Old Yishuv, with many items collected from veteran Jerusalemite families or purchased from collectors and shops.

The house is built in the typical style of past generations in the Jewish Quarter. Exhibits include two rooms displaying different hosting styles, Sephardic and Ashkenazi. In the bedroom, there is a birthing bed that was passed from house to house for women about to give birth. The kitchen features baking and cooking areas with many items, and the courtyards display water holes, a manual pump, gutters, ornamental plants, a laundry corner, and a warehouse. The craft room presents professions and trades from the past, such as a goldsmith, shoemaker, tailor, peddler, wool breaker, knife sharpener, and shoe shiner.

Ari Synagogue

Ari Synagogue
Hebrew: בית הכנסת הארי
Interior of the synagogue, in 2002
Religion
AffiliationJudaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational statusSynagogue
StatusActive
Location
LocationAbove the Old Yishuv Court Museum
Old Yishuv Court Museum is located in JerusalemOld Yishuv Court MuseumLocation of the synagogue in the
Old City of Jerusalem
Geographic coordinates31°46′31.1″N 35°13′49.0″E / 31.775306°N 35.230278°E / 31.775306; 35.230278
Architecture
TypeSynagogue architecture
StyleOttoman architecture

The Ari Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת הארי) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, 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, (1534–1572), who was known as the Ari. Luria was a great kabbalist who founded a new school in Kabbalistic thought, known as the "System of the Ari" or "Lurianic kabbalah".

According to tradition, it was in this building where Rabbi Isaac Luria was born and where he lived for 20 years. It is told that prophet Elijah was the sandek at his Brit milah. At some stage, the room of his traditional birthplace became a Sephardic synagogue. The Jews of the yishuv were forbidden by Ottoman 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

Notes

  1. Ari: (Hebrew: אֲרִי; trans: The Lion), an acronym for haEloqi Rabbeinu Yitzhak, the divine, our teacher, Isaac.

References

  1. ^ ענבר, יהודית; שילר, אלי, eds. (1994). מוזיאונים בישראל (in Hebrew) (2nd ed.). הוצאת אריאל. pp. 53–54.
  2. "Old Yishuv Court Museum - Jerusalem Old City Site". en.haatika.co.il. Archived from the original on October 5, 2022. Retrieved October 5, 2022.

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