Jewish Historic Sites of Damascus

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

with Damascus at the center of the world's attention and the attention of the Jewish people it's worthwhile to point out that there's a historic site in modern day Damascus that has tremendous significance for the Jewish people one of the most storied and admired and revered synagogues butas in the entire world it's called B jobar this is the uh synagogue that the even refers to in the sh or in the gar it's called K but that bisha was actually in B this bisha this sh is in Syria and it has tremendous significance it was a bisha that was destroyed a number of times it was a show destroyed a number of times According to some was rebuilt in the first century by Reb and some say it dates back 2900 years if is the location of the cave that Eli hid in when he ran away from a after killed 450 on har carel and Hashem commanded him to run away to Mid if you look to anoint as king of as king of is and Alisha as his as his and El went to midb and he did everything that hasem said if you look there is a cave that's found under the floor in jober that biblical Damascus was about 4 kilm away from jober but current Damascus encompasses jobar and that is the exact location where El Ani hid where El Anvi anointed Elisha and we have a tradition that the sanctity of this place already began in the times of Alisha

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4. 1:31you look there is a cave that's found under the floor in jober that biblical Damascus…
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7. 3:02somebody by the name of Elbas Elbas was one of the He's listed in his entry…
8. 3:34father of the the entrance way this was a title of great reverence given to the…
9. 4:05the sh it was in Damascus this is a it was a beautiful sh it housed…
10. 4:372014 during the Syrian Uprising the majority of this Mak was destroyed but this just gives…

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