Solomon Eliezer Alfandari
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Solomon Eliezer Alfandari, also known as the Saba Kadisha, was a distinguished rabbi, kabbalist and rosh yeshiva in his native home of Istanbul, and later served as Chief Rabbi of Damascus, Syria Vila
Solomon Eliezer Alfandari
A plaque is affixed beside the doorway of a new apartment building at 27 Alfandari Street, Jerusalem. The original home that was razed for the construction of this building was the home of Rabbi Solomon Eliezer Alfandari in the original Ruchama neighborhood (founded 1921, now Mekor Baruch). The plaque reads: "Here lived until 1930 Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari, a Kabbalist and one of the great Poskim".
The Jerusalem street on which Alfandari lived has been named after him.
Chaim Elazar Spira
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Chaim Elazar Spira, also known as the Minchas Elazar after his magnum opus, was a rebbe of the Hasidic Munkacs dynasty.
Solomon Eliezer Alfandari
…Yitzchak Abuchatzeira, brother of the Baba Sali and a Torah sage in his own right. Shortly before the Saba Kadisha's death, the Munkatcher Rebbe, Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira, of Hungary made a special trip to meet him. Theirs was considered an historic meeting between two worlds, the Sephardi genius of the Middle East and…
Spira in 1937.
poster welcoming the holy minkatcher rabbi to Jerusalem
The side of the Batei Munkacs synagogue in Jerusalem. The entrance to the synagogue is on the right side of the building.
Spira's tombstone