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Сила Теилим

Grave

Moshe Alshich HaKadosh

Grave Moshe Alshich HaKadosh

Yahrzeit (Hillula)

  • 13 Nisan — Rabbi Moshe Alshich - the Alshich HaKadosh
The Grave of Alshich HaKadosh - Rabbi Moshe Alshich, head of the city of Safed in the times of the Arizal
Yahrzeit - 13 Nissan
Burial place - Safed
Alshich HaKadosh was born in Adrianople (Edirne) in 1508. He studied in the yeshiva in Salonika under Rabbi Yosef Taitatzak. He later moved to the city of Safed. He studied under Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, and received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from him.
He became renowned as an orator, delivering sermons in the synagogue on Shabbat. He traveled among the Jewish communities of the Middle East to raise funds for the yeshivot of Safed. He wrote a number of books - commentaries on Tanach. He headed the yeshiva in Safed. Among his most notable students were Rabbi Chaim Vital and Rabbi Yom-Tov Tzahalon.
Rabbi Alshich was the first of four sages who, for generations to come, merited being given a similar title: HaKadosh (the holy). This honorary title is traditionally also added to the names of the great kabbalists of the Land of Israel - Rabbi Yitzchak Luria (the Arizal HaKadosh), Rabbi Yeshaya Horowitz (the Shlah HaKadosh), and Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar (the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh).
In 1587, at the age of 80, fleeing the epidemic that had broken out in Safed, Rabbi Moshe Alshich moved to Damascus. Beginning in 1590, he spent three years traveling among the communities of Syria, Turkey, and Persia, collecting donations for the Jews of Safed.
In addition to his commentaries on the Five Books of Moses, Rabbi Moshe Alshich composed commentaries on all the books of the Prophets (except for Yechezkel), as well as on Tehillim (Psalms), Mishlei (Proverbs of Solomon), Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs), and the books of Daniel, Job, and Ruth.
In 1592, while in Istanbul, he published several of his works for the first time at the Hebrew printing house of the Mendes family. He sent most of his manuscripts to be published in Venice, where, during his lifetime, his commentaries on Shir HaShirim (in 1591) and Mishlei (in 1592) appeared.
He passed away in Safed in 1593. On the roof of the cave there is a separate headstone for the Alshich.

Location

32.96464, 35.49599 — open on OpenStreetMap

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