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Great Biblical Personalities and Jewish Sages
Burial
Sites
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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 |
|
|
|
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Please note:
Due to the present tensions, it is advisable to avoid visiting areas of
conflict in Israel.
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
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