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Zmanim (Hebrew: זְמַנִּים, literally means "times", singular zman) are specific times of the day mentioned in Jewish law. These times appear in various contexts: Shabbat and Jewish holidays begin and end at specific times in the evening, while some rituals must be performed during the day or the night, or during specific hours of the ...
The congregation was founded as Beth Jacob in 1869, [7] by more traditional members of an existing Reform German Jewish synagogue, [1] the Keap Street Temple. [8] They objected to the installation and use of a pipe organ to accompany Yom Kippur services, which was forbidden by halakha (Jewish law), and seceded and created their own congregation. [1]
Bein hazmanim blocks divide between the three major yeshiva zmanim (semesters) —the Elul zman, choref (winter) zman, and kayitz (summer) zman. The summer zman is sometimes referred to as the "Pesach zman"—particularly in yeshivas that end their semesters prior to, or at the very beginning of, the summer rather than on Tisha B'Av.
The Chabad movement was established after the First Partition of Poland in the town of Liozno, Pskov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Liozna, Belarus), in 1775, by Shneur Zalman, [4] a student of Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the successor to Hasidism's founder, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov.
In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn. [5] [3] [2] Census enumerations in many countries do not record religious or ethnic background, leading to a lack of certainty regarding the exact numbers of Jewish adherents. Therefore, the following list of cities ranked by Jewish population is not complete.
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The Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem – today the largest Yeshiva in the world – was established in 1944, by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel who had traveled to Palestine to obtain visas for his students; Ponevezh similarly by Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman; and Knesses Chizkiyahu in 1949. The leading Sephardi Yeshiva, Porat Yosef, was founded in 1914 ...
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