As we continue our tour of the Jewish quarter of the Old City...behind the guide you see the brand renewed Churba Synagogue. It was built it the 1700's by R' Yehuda Hachassid to prepare for Moshiach. It was then destroyed by the Muslims.
It was rebuilt in the 1867's (?) by the Jerusalem community.
It was then destroyed by the Arabs in the 1948 war.
It was rebuilt a few months ago.
A 10-week-old baby in a 104,000-week-old neighborhood.
At the memorial to the "soldiers" who fell defending the old city in the 1948 war of independence. They were men, women and children and they were buried here until the Jordanians let them be reburied on Mount Olives, with full military honors.
We're standing in front of the Tzemach Tzedek shul, one of the oldest functioning Shuls in Yerushalayim and one of the oldest Chabad institutions anywhere.
It was established long-distance by the Tzemach Tzedek (third Chabad Rebbe) and was the only Shul not destroyed by the arabs in 1948. No one knows why, according to our guide.
Habad Street! (one of the longest streets in the old city.)
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