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    Mekor Chaim (also Makor Haim, Hebrew: מקור חיים, lit. Source of life) is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem. It was named for Haim Cohen, a wealthy...
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    Chaim ibn Attar or Ḥayyim ben Moshe ibn Attar (Arabic: حاييم بن موشي بن عطار, Hebrew: חיים בן משה בן עטר; c. 1696 – 7 July 1743) also known as the Or...
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    custom of stealing the afikoman. According to the author of the work Mekor Chaim – Chavos Yair, this custom demonstrates love for the mitzvah of afikoman...
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    [citation needed] The book is divided into three parts: The legal text is Mekor Chayim ("Source of Life"). Be'er Mayim Chayim ("Well of living water"),...
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    Yeshiva [he] on King David Street in Hebron. The other two were students of the Mekor Chaim yeshiva at Kfar Etzion in the West Bank's Area C under full Israeli administration...
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    residents of Malha Mea She'arim attacked by residents of the Muslim Quarter Mekor Chaim attacked by residents of Beit Safafa Atarot 26 August N/A Neve Yaakov...
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  • Rabbi Chaim Brisker. In 1976, a high school attached to the yeshiva was opened. Following his death, Rabbi Paler was succeeded as dean of Mekor Chaim by...
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    Yehuda Machane Yisrael Malha Mamilla Mazkeret Moshe Meah Shearim Mekor Baruch Mekor Chaim Mishkenot Sha'ananim Motza Mount Scopus Mount of Olives Mount Zion...
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  • the practice of avoiding Torah study appears in Rabbi Yair Bacharach's Mekor Chaim, composed sometime between 1660 and 1692, where he wrote “and there is...
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  • Schwadron exerted a similar positive influence on Sephardi students at Mekor Chaim Yeshiva, where he served as rosh yeshiva from 1950 to 1960. He taught...
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