THE MAIMONIDES CENTRAL SEPHARADI SYNAGOGUE, Israel

The idea behind the design of the central Sephardic synagogue which won the first prize in an open competition in Hadera, Israel was the attempt to revive traditional design patterns based on both Maimonides' halachic rulings (the laws he set down in his book Hayad Hahazaka) and Talmudic literature as it was passed on to me by the beadles of the synagogues in Safad, capital of the Galilee, home and birthplace of Judaism's mystical stream of the Kabbala, and infuse into them a new meaning, in line with the program for this synagogue, and in accordance with the immediate landscape.
I endeavored to captivate in this building the timeless spiritual exaltation that we experience in places of worship of every religion, in any culture we know, a feeling that worshippers underwent in synagogues where Maimonides prayed, such as the Iben Denan Synagogue in Fez, Morocco, the Ben-Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, or the Abuhab Sephardic Synagogue in Safad, Israel. That deep feeling that opens your heart when entering places of worship, stems from the structural properties of the building itself. was to attempt to revive traditional design patterns based on both Maimonides' halachic rulings (the laws he set down in his book Hayad Hahazaka) and Talmudic literature as it was passed on to me by the beadles of the synagogues in Safad, capital of the Galilee, home and birthplace of Judaism's mystical stream of the Kabbala, and infuse into them a new meaning, in line with the program for this synagogue, and in accordance with the immediate landscape.
I endeavored to captivate in this building the timeless spiritual exaltation that we experience in places of worship of every religion, in any culture we know, a feeling that worshippers underwent in synagogues where Maimonides prayed, such as the Iben Denan Synagogue in Fez, Morocco, the Ben-Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, or the Abuhab Sephardic Synagogue in Safad, Israel. That deep feeling that opens your heart when entering places of worship, stems from the structural properties of the building itself. was to attempt to revive traditional design patterns based on both Maimonides' halachic rulings (the laws he set down in his book Hayad Hahazaka) and Talmudic literature as it was passed on to me by the beadles of the synagogues in Safad, capital of the Galilee, home and birthplace of Judaism's mystical stream of the Kabbala, and infuse into them a new meaning, in line with the program for this synagogue, and in accordance with the immediate landscape.
I endeavored to captivate in this building the timeless spiritual exaltation that we experience in places of worship of every religion, in any culture we know, a feeling that worshippers underwent in synagogues where Maimonides prayed, such as the Iben Denan Synagogue in Fez, Morocco, the Ben-Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, or the Abuhab Sephardic Synagogue in Safad, Israel. That deep feeling that opens your heart when entering places of worship, stems from the structural properties of the building itself.
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[sebastiano2012]

hola que tal , me llamo eduin , soy de perú , ver este video me hace recordar la etapa que estudiaba arquitectura ,lo deje por motivos x

que me cuesta comprender , inevitable mi inseguridad total desde ese entonces ,comence a tropesar al no encontrar un camino , me siento solo y a 8 años de esa experiencia me sigue doliendo y no encuentro una salida y lo peor es que gente quisas como tu que sigue su camino yo no se donde ir ,par terminar no quiero darte lastima ni creo ser nulo para el estudio

[niliportugali]

Please write me in English as I cant read it

[Jewcepticon]

if it has benches it isn't acourding to the Rambam, who states that Synogogues in his part of the world have no chairs and people sit on the floor (Like they did in Yemen until recently)

[72Yonatan]

Thank you; very interesting design and I enjoyed the interview with the architect.

It seems a good design and will be enjoyed for many years.

[AvodasHashem5719]

The answer is my fellow Jews have strayed away from TORAH, Plain and simple. They have strayed from The G-d of their forefathers in order to assimilate and be accepted by their gentile peers, To then the thought of being set apart and Bound to Torah is inconvenient and would draw them away from their toys. It's a real heartbreaker.

[sebastiano2012]

would be better if you leave a message on your channel