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'Golden Gate') is the only eastern gate of the Temple Mount, and one of only two Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem that used to offer access into the city from the East side. The gate has been sealed since 1541, the most recent of several sealings. Its interior can be accessed from the Temple Mount. In Jewish tradition, the Messiah will enter ...
The Golden Gate (Arabic: باب الرحمة, romanized: Bāb al-Raḥma, lit. 'Mercy Gate'; Hebrew: Sha'ar Harachamim, "Gate of Mercy"), located on the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, was probably built in the 520s CE, as part of Justinian I's building program in Jerusalem, on top of the ruins
Print/export Download as PDF ... move to sidebar hide. Gate of Mercy may refer to: Gate of Mercy Synagogue; Golden Gate (Jerusalem) This page was last edited on ...
References to Zion and Jerusalem in classical Jewish prayer and ritual are significant. The liturgy includes many explicit references too: Zion and Jerusalem are mentioned 5 times in the 18-blessing Amidah prayer, the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy, which calls for the restoration of Jerusalem to the Jewish nation. It is said while facing ...
This article lists the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The gates are visible on most old maps of Jerusalem over the last 1,500 years. During different periods, the city walls followed different outlines and had a varying number of gates. During the era of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291), Jerusalem had four gates, one on each ...
The Koren Siddur refers to a family of siddurim published by Koren Publishers Jerusalem beginning in 1981. [1] Eliyahu Koren began work on a new prayerbook in the 1970s. Koren created Koren Book Type for the project. [2] Rather than allow the text to run continuously across page turns, Koren maintained lines and paragraphs within individual pages.
Book of Prayer of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London (5 vols.): Oxford (Oxford University Press, Vivian Ridler), 5725 - 1965 (Hebrew and English; since reprinted) Book of Prayer: According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews , David de Sola Pool : New York, Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1941, 1954, 1979 ...
The Gates of Mercy are shown adjacent or perhaps as part of the wall. [132] In another reversal by c. 1167 CE, during the later Crusader period, the Western Wall was reopened to Jewish prayer. Benjamin of Tudela attests:. . . and the Gate of Jehoshaphat, which faced the Temple in ancient times.