Ohel (grave)
Ohel (Template:Langx; plural: Script error: No such module "lang"., literally, "tent")Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn is a structure built around a Jewish grave as a sign of prominence of the deceased. Script error: No such module "lang". cover the graves of some (but not all) Hasidic Rebbes, important rabbis, tzadikim, prominent Jewish community leaders, and biblical figures. Typically a small masonry building, an Script error: No such module "lang". may include room for visitors to pray, meditate, and light candles in honor of the deceased.
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According to Krajewska, the tradition of covering a grave with an Script error: No such module "lang". may be based on the Cave of the Patriarchs, in which Abraham buried Sarah.Template:Sfn Nolan Menachemson suggests that the Hasidic tradition of covering the graves of Rebbes with an Script error: No such module "lang". derives from the Script error: No such module "lang". ("Tent of Meeting") in which Moses communicated with God during the Israelites' travels in the desert.Template:Sfn
Construction
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Use
In the case of a Hasidic Rebbe, the ohel is a place for visitors to pray, meditate, write kvitelekh (petitionary prayer notes) and light candles in honor of the deceased.Template:Sfn[2]Template:Sfn Ohelim of Hasidic Rebbes, as well as the tombs of tzadikim venerated by Moroccan Jews, serve as year-round pilgrimage sites, with the biggest influx of visitors coming on the rebbe or tzadik's yom hillula (anniversary of death).Template:Sfn[3]
Notable ohelim
One or more graves may be included in the same ohel. Notable ohelim include:
Single-grave ohel
- Baba Sali, Netivot, Israel
- Chida, Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem
- Yonatan ben Uziel, Amuka, Israel
- Elimelech of Lizhensk, Leżajsk, Poland
- Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, leader of pre-war Eastern European Jewry
- Nachman of Breslov, Uman, Ukraine
- Nathan of Breslov, Breslov, Ukraine
- Rachel, wife of Rabbi Akiva, Tiberias, Israel
- Vilna Gaon, Vilnius, Lithuania
Multiple-grave ohel
- Avraham Mordechai Alter and Pinchas Menachem Alter, the third and sixth rebbes of Ger, Jerusalem
- Baal Shem Tov, Ze'ev Wolf Kitzes, the Degel Machaneh Ephraim, the Apter Rav, and Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, Medzhybizh, Ukraine
- Avrohom Bornsztain and his son Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain, Sochatchover Rebbes
- Dov Ber of Mezeritch and Zusha of Anipoli
- Shlomo Halberstam and Naftali Halberstam, the third and fourth Bobover Rebbes, New York
- Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the sixth and seventh Lubavitcher Rebbes, Queens, New York
- Joel Teitelbaum and Moses Teitelbaum, first and second Satmar Rebbes
Biblical figures and Talmudic sages
Biblical figures and Mishnaic and Talmudic sages are typically buried in ohelim:Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Benjamin (near Kfar Saba, Israel)
- Esther and Mordechai, Hamadan, Iran
- Habakkuk, northern Israel
- Judah, Yehud, Israel
- Rabbi Meir or Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes (Rabbi Meir the miracle maker) was a Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Mishna.
- Rachel, near Bethlehem
- Simeon bar Yochai, Meron, Israel is the site of a large annual Lag BaOmer celebration
- Yose HaGelili, Dalton, Israel
Gallery
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Rachel's Tomb, covered by a distinctive, dome-shaped ohel, as it appeared circa 1910
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The graves of Avraham Mordechai Alter (right) and his son, Pinchas Menachem Alter (left) in an ohel adjacent to the Sfas Emes Yeshiva in downtown Jerusalem
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Ohel of the Baal Shem Tov in Medzhybizh, Ukraine
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Ohel of Rabbi Jonathan ben Uzziel in Amuka, Israel
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Ohel of the Vizhnitzer Rebbes in Bnei Brak
See also
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