Jewish Sages & Great Biblical Personalities Burial Places

 

Known Name

 

Name

 

Place

 

From

 

Comment

 

Buried

 

Day

 

Month of Passing

 

Year

 

Day

 

Birthday

 

Year

 

Abraham

 

Avraham Avinu

 

Torah

 

Patriarch

 

Hb

 

13

 

Nisan

 

Adam

 

Adam HaRishon

 

Torah

 

The first man

 

Hb

 

6

 

Tishrei

 

Rabbi Akiva

 

Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef

 

Israel

 

Talmud

 

Tana from the Talmud

 

T

 

k

 

10

 

Tishrei

 

Arizal

 

R. Itzchak Luria Ashkenazi ben Shlomo

 

Tzefat

 

Great sage and kabbalist

 

Z

 

3

 

Av

 

Baba Sali

 

Rabbi Yisrael Abouhatzeira

 

Morocco

 

Great sage and kabbalist

 

N

 

4

 

Shevat

 

Eve

 

Chava

 

Torah

 

The first woman

 

Hb

 

6

 

Tishrei

 

David Hamelech

 

David ben Ishai

 

Israel

 

Tanach

 

King of Israel

 

J1

 

6

 

Sivan

 

David Hamelech

 

David ben Ishai

 

Israel

 

Tanach

 

King of Israel—Date is aoop

 

J1

 

22

 

Tishrei

 

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein

 

Staten Island, NY

 

Great Sage of the Generation

 

J2

 

13

 

Adar

 

Hida

 

R. Haim David Azoulay

 

Israel

 

Great sage and kabbalist

 

J2

 

Isaac

 

Yitzchak Avinu

 

Israel

 

Torah

 

Patriarch

 

Hb

 

11

 

Nisan

 

Jacob

 

Yaakov Avinu

 

Torah

 

Patriarch

 

Hb

 

19

 

Tishrei

 

15

 

Tishrei

 

Meir Baal Haness

 

Rabbi Meir

 

Talmud

 

Tana from the Talmud

 

T

 

14

 

Iyar

 

Moshe Rabeinu

 

Moshe ben Amram

 

Egypt

 

Torah

 

Led Jews out from Egypt

 

7

 

Shevat

 

Ohr HaChaim

 

Rabbi Haim Ibn-Attar

 

Morocco

 

Great sage

 

J3

 

15

 

Tamuz

 

Rachel Imeinu

 

Rachel

 

Torah

 

Matriarch

 

B

 

11

 

Heshvan

 

Rachel Imeinu

 

Rachel

 

Torah

 

Matriarch—Date is aoop

 

B

 

15

 

Heshvan

 

Rambam

 

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon

 

Spain

 

Great Sage -Maimonides

 

T

 

20

 

Tevet

 

14

 

Nisan

 

Ramhal

 

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto

 

Great Sage—wrote Messilat Yesharim

 

T

 

4

 

Iyar

 

Sarah Imeinu

 

Sarah

 

Israel

 

Torah

 

Matriarch

 

Hb

 

1

 

Tishrei

 

2075

 

R.Mordechai Sharabi

 

Israel

 

Great sage and kabbalist

 

J2

 

20

 

Heshvan

 

5744

 

R. Shimeon Bar Yohai –

 

Rashbi

 

Israel

 

Tana from the Talmud

 

M

 

18

 

Iyar

 

Shimon Hatzadik

 

Simon, the Righteous

 

Talmud

 

Tana from the Talmud

 

J5

 

29

 

Tishrei

 

Shmuel Hanavi

 

The Prophet Samuel

 

Tanach

 

Great Prophet that anointed King David

 

J4

 

28

 

Iyar

 

Shmuel Hanavi

 

The Prophet Samuel

 

Tanach

 

Great Prophet-Date is aoop

 

J4

 

29

 

Iyar

 

This chart is provided to help you visit the burial places of our great ancestors. Keys: J1 – Mount Zion,
Old City of Jerusalem, J2 – Har Hamenuhot Cemetery, Givat Shaul,
Jerusalem, J3 – Har HaZeitim Cemetery, Jerusalem, J4 – Ramot Road,
Jerusalem, J5 – Off Derech Shechem Road, Jerusalem; B- Bethlehem; Hb –
Hebron; M – Meron; N – Netivot; T – Tiberias; Z – Tzefat; Abbreviations—aoop—According
to one opinion

These are our great Jewish ancestors and sages. At
their tombs you can pray to G-d that in the merit of that particular
person that you be answered.


Enjoy
•  Jerusalem Life

 

 

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