By COLlive reporter and news wires
Jerusalem’s historic Hurva Synagogue, destroyed by Jordan’s Arab Legion in 1948 and recently rebuilt after nearly a decade of construction, was rededicated at a ceremony this past weekend.
The festivities in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter kicked off on Sunday with the welcoming of a Torah scroll, while the official reopening of the Hurva took place Monday.
Built in 1701 and named Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid, the building served as Jerusalem’s main Ashkenazi shul for generations, until it was destroyed by the Jordanian army during the 1948 War of Independence.
The rededication comes as security measures in the Old City and elsewhere in east Jerusalem are at a peak following Palestinian protests.
News that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would not attend fueled speculation he had decided to skip the event in an effort to avoid conflict with the Obama administration, after a diplomatic storm erupted with the US last week regarding construction over the Green Line in the capital.
A spokeswoman from the Prime Minister’s Office, however, denied that Netanyahu had ever planned on going to the re-dedication.
The spokeswoman said that the prime minister “didn’t go to every synagogue dedication, and he hadn’t planned on going to this one.”
Moscow Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzki, Kiev Rabbi Reuven Asman and other Chabad Shluchim were instrumental in raising funds for the building.
So beautiful, It”s very touching. I can’t wait togo to the Hurva Shule & see it , Be’H.
wow! look at your loshon hakodesh letters – are you an expert or something?
Never to be Chruva Again!!
Next Tiferet Yisrael & then the Beit HaBechrera!!
With all this Lubavitch involvement and finacial support why couldn’t anyone have an influence to fashion the Shul’s luchos as the Rebbe wished it to be? Was that so difficult?
i hope it comes true שיבנה בית המקדש במהרה בימינו ותן חלקנו בתורתך
WOW! May moshiach does anyone know why moshiach is not here yet?
The Vilna Goan said that the Hurva shule will be rebuilt 3 times and the third building will coincide with the building of the 3rd beis hamikdosh, you can read about it here…
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1131599.html
i read that the Gra said that the Redemption process begins with the rebuilding of the Churva
Kol HaKavod l’ HaRav Moshe vi l’ HaRav Levi. The work that you have done from Haditch to Hurva is unbelievable.
wow
WOW! how beautiful
Shiyibana Bais Hamikdash Bimhaira B’yamaeinu Mamash Now!!