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The annual Rosh Hashana pilgrimage effectively redirected the focus of Breslover Hasidut from the town of Breslov to the town of Uman. Today, the town of Breslov is considered a side-trip for visitors to Ukraine, as the only sites of interest to Breslover Hasidim there are the graves of Reb Nosson and other Breslover figures.
The pilgrimage, especially during Sukkot, was the largest, and traditions like "Pesi Birot" (פסי ביראות) allowed flexibility for pilgrims’ needs on Shabbat. After the Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE), The Aliya la'regel practice continued. Following the establishment of Israel, symbolic pilgrimages to Mount Zion were led by Rabbi Yedidia ...
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šālōš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles ...
Clashes erupted on Sunday between police and Jewish pilgrims at a religious festival site in northern Israel where three years ago 45 people died in a crowd crush, and which authorities closed ...
Tucker Carlson described Ukraine’s Jewish leader as “rat-like”, questioned the official story about 9/11, and claimed definitively that aliens are visiting Earth as he launched his new TV ...
The dedication ceremony of the Menorah center took place on October 16, 2012, with guests that included Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Yaakov Bleich, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar, Israel Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, representatives of Jewish institutions (including Hillel, the Jewish Agency, the American ...
In recent weeks, protesters at two colleges and one university have taunted Jewish students outside or near events held by Hillel, a century-old mainstream Jewish organization at more than 600 ...
A place of pilgrimage since the late 15th century, [2] it is today the second-most-visited Jewish site in the world after the Western Wall [3] with as many as two million annual visitors. [4] The tomb building was built in the mid-19th century by Shmuel Abu, the French consular agent in Safed. [5]