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'Sunrise Synagogue' [1]: 392–393 ), also spelled Zohorei Chama, colloquially known as the Sundial Building or Mahane Yehuda Clock Tower, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, Israel. The four-story stone building with a wooden attic features a huge, 5-metre (16 ft) diameter sundial on its façade.
Usually this time is computed using daybreak as 72 minutes before sunrise (or more accurately, when the sun is 16.1 degrees below the horizon, as it is in Jerusalem 72 minutes before sunrise on the equinox), and nightfall as 72 minutes after sunset.
Relative hour (Hebrew singular: shaʿah zǝmanit / שעה זמנית; plural: shaʿot - zǝmaniyot / שעות זמניות), sometimes called halachic hour, temporal hour, seasonal hour and variable hour, is a term used in rabbinic Jewish law that assigns 12 hours to each day and 12 hours to each night, all throughout the year.
Jerusalem City Hall in Safra Square. The square was named for the Syrian-Jewish banker Jacob Safra (1891–1963) and his wife Esther, parents of Edmond J. Safra. [1] [2] Edmond Safra (1932–1999), a philanthropist, has been one of the leading contributors to the fund, which re-built the area of downtown Jerusalem.
Jerusalem's old town hall was built in 1930, during the British Mandate. The construction was financed by Barclays Bank, whose offices were located in the rounded section of the building facing the Old City walls. [1] The building was designed by British architect Clifford Holliday.
The most familiar mitzvah that depends on the time of day is Jewish prayer. The morning Shema must be read between dawn [6] and three variable hours after sunrise. (A "variable hour" is one-twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset, or according to another opinion between dawn and the appearance of stars at twilight.
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The Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת אור החיים), is a Kabbalistic Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Ohr ha-Chaim Street, in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. The synagogue was named in honour of Chaim ibn Attar.