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    The Maharshal's Synagogue (Polish: Synagoga Maharszala), also known as the Great Lublin Synagogue (Yiddish: מהרשל־שול), was a former Orthodox Jewish congregation...
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  • Maharam's Synagogue was built near the end of the 16th or in the beginning of the 17th centuries, as a building clinging to the southern wall of Maharshal's Synagogue...
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    Parochet (category Synagogue architecture)
    Mühlhausen Original parochet from Great Lublin Maharshal's Synagogue from 1926, today in Bielsko-Biała synagogue, Poland Early-17th-century parochet from Cairo...
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    Monday, Thursday, and Monday successively, at the regular service in the synagogue. During the period of niddui, no one except the members of his immediate...
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    learnt together in yeshivah with the Maharshal who was 17, 2 years his elder. He learnt together with the Maharshal and Rema for 3 years. Rav Yitzchok Clover...
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  • Reform synagogue and in many Conservative synagogues. His responsum on this question was also directed at the small number of Orthodox synagogues that were...
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    Commonwealth. 1572 – A synagogue opens in Vilnius. 1592 – A pogrom breaks out Vilnius. Jewish businesses and homes, in addition to the synagogue, are destroyed...
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  • Rabbi of Moscow and the Moscow Choral Synagogue Mavro Frankfurter (1875–1942), Croatian rabbi of the Vinkovci Synagogue who was murdered during the Holocaust...
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  • translated by Rabbi Jules Harlow, The Rabbinical Assembly/The United Synagogue of America, New York, 1989, p. 712 The first word, בָּרוּךְ (barukh),...
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    wife died young, at the age of 20 and he later established the "Rema Synagogue" in Kraków in her memory (originally his house, built by his father in...
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