HistoryDocumented account
A Yemenite traveller comes to Maran’s study hall on Shabbat and leaves us the only eyewitness picture of it.
HistoryTradition
A great rabbi forbade his students to rely on the Beit Yosef — until, for the first time in his life, his memory failed him.
HistoryDocumented account
In 1538 the sages of Tzfat tried to renew the ancient ordination broken off for over a thousand years. Karo was among the first.
HistoryDocumented account
In Kraków, Rabbi Moshe Isserles was writing the very book Karo had just finished. What he did next made one code for all Israel.
HistoryDocumented account
In 1777 the first Hasidim to settle in the Land of Israel arrived in Tzfat. Where did they pray? In Maran’s beit midrash.
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In 2006 a Katyusha struck just outside Maran’s synagogue. Its twisted remains now hang by the Ark.
