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286:(d. 1864) described the synagogue as reminding him of "the Mosque Moawiah". "The interior is supported by 13 marble pillars, six on the right and seven on the left side, and is everywhere inlaid with marble. There is only one portal by which to enter. Under the holy shrine ... is a grotto ... the descent to which is by a flight of about 20 steps. According to the Jews, the Prophet Elisha is said to have found in this grotto a place of refuge.... At the entrance of the synagogue, toward the middle of the wall to the right, is an irregularly formed stone, on which can be observed the traces of several steps. Tradition asserts that upon this step sat King Hazael when the Prophet Elisha anointed him king." 368:. By May 2014 the majority of the structure had been totally demolished with only the right wing remaining. Blame was directed at the Syrian army who mistakenly hit the synagogue while targeting a nearby rebel enclave although some claim rebels were hiding the synagogue complex. Subsequently there has been concern that items from the ruin would be looted and illegally sold. Private funds have been raised in an attempt to restore the synagogue. The restoration project is being undertaken with the approval of the Syrian and Russian governments. 79: 2043: 86: 329:. In 1847, only one Jewish family was left in the village, and they took care of the synagogue. On festival days, many of Jews from Damascus assembled at the synagogue to worship and during the year, the synagogue was often visited by Jews. A few rooms in the court adjoining the synagogue were used as a retreat by some Damascus Jews for a few days during the spring and summer. 364:, with both government and rebel forces trading blame over which party looted and destroyed the building. However, later during the year photographs were published and a video emerged showing that the synagogue was still standing but had suffered from mortar fire with damage to the ceiling and the 336:, Jews in Syria faced greater discrimination as the Syrian government enforced tighter restrictions on them. Jewish property could not be sold and those that had been abandoned were confiscated. Part of the land associated with the synagogue was taken over and converted into a school for displaced 252:
prayed there. The challenge to this interpretation has also led to discord and controversy (although according to the anthropologist and researcher Dr. Adam Blitz, from the content and comparison with the traditional explanations it is clear that the town of Abi Gobar was in
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and was frequently but incorrectly perceived to be a 2,000-year-old synagogue located in the suburb of Jobar, Damascus. The earliest verifiable literary sources indicate that it is at least medieval in origin. It was built in commemoration of the biblical prophet
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site for Jews. In the past, sick people were brought into the caveren below the synagogue and left there alone at night in the hope that Elisha's spirit would exercise a healing influence over them. According to an extract from the Syrian
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Last week the wicked entered the synagogue at Djobar and pillaged the whole edifice. The holy scrolls they have torn into pieces; they even took some of these holy coverings of the scrolls and other sacred writings and used them most
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Over two-thirds of the synagogue has been destroyed.... All that exists is part of a wing to the right of center and the antechamber to the Cave of Elijah, ostensibly an Early Christian catacomb in form, way
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During the medieval period, Jobar was home to a significant Jewish community. Shams Ibn Tulun Al Dimashki (d. 1546) mentions that "Jobar is a Jewish village with a Muslim presence." In 1210 a French Jew,
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The synagogue was once adjoined to a complex with rooms for the rabbi and other functionaries of the community. The synagogue was built atop a cave traditionally thought to have served the prophet
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According to tradition, the synagogue was built atop a cave where the prophet Elijah concealed himself during persecution. The synagogue was said to have been built by
270:, while visiting Damascus, recounted the "beautiful synagogue situated outside the city", (in Jobar). An anonymous Jewish traveller who arrived a few years after the 207:. During the Syrian civil war, the synagogue was hit by mortar bombs, looted, and later 2/3 of the synagogue were totally destroyed at the end of May 2014. 1506: 1491: 282:(1672) says that the Jewish community of Damascus lived chiefly in Jobar, and he knows of the synagogue of Elisha and the cave of Elijah the Tishbite. 785: 746:, Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1959, p. 62. (According to Lurya, p. 245, it would be 18.4 m long and 11.6 m wide.) 2060: 1958: 841: 226:, and has been a place of Jewish pilgrimage for many centuries. It also is the burial-place of a wonder-working sage of the sixteenth century. 2109: 480: 2114: 109: 249: 34: 2119: 945: 2139: 1316: 1311: 1112: 271: 2134: 1511: 1933: 1521: 677: 1352: 1516: 1029: 639: 516: 918: 707: 627: 616: 467: 435: 317:(religious endowment), which were leased to members of other communities. During the rioting following accusation of 78: 890: 333: 2104: 1433: 813: 545: 2099: 1334: 740: 1993: 1918: 1606: 595: 244:
Though much cited as one of the earliest sources mentioning the existence of a synagogue at Jobar is from the
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of the Djobar district, its east side is 17–3 m long, itst side 15.7m and the building 12.13m wide.
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Documents from the early 19th century reveal properties in the village that belonged to Jewish
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In March 2013, reports surfaced that the synagogue had been burned to the ground during the
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in hiding. The hall center was said to be the place where Elijah anointed
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The cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria
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The synagogue is venerated as one of Syria's holiest
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Index

Affiliation
Jobar Synagogue is located in Syria
Geographic coordinates
33°31′33.6″N 36°20′06.3″E / 33.526000°N 36.335083°E / 33.526000; 36.335083
synagogue
Jobar
Damascus
Syria
Syrian civil war
Elijah
Elisha
Elijah
Elisha
Eleazar ben Arach
Hazael
Talmud
Rafram bar Pappa
Babylonia
Samuel ben Samson
Spanish immigration
Joseph Sambari
Benjamin II
wakf
ritual murder
Jews of Damascus in 1840
scrolls of the Law
establishment of the State of Israel
Palestinian
pilgrimage
cadastre

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