Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva | |
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![]() Entrance door to the Yeshivat haMekubalim, depicting all 7 gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | |
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Coordinates | 31°46′30″N 35°13′54″E / 31.774978°N 35.231566°E |
Information | |
Type | Yeshiva |
Religious affiliation(s) | Orthodox Judaism |
Established | 1737 |
Founder | Rabbi Gedaliah Hayon |
Rosh yeshiva | Rabbi Yisrael Avi`hai |
Gender | Males |
Language | Hebrew |
The Beit El Kabbalist yeshiva (Beit El means "House of God") (also: Midrash Hasidim 'School of the Devout' or Yeshivat haMekubalim, 'Yeshiva of the Kabbalists') is a center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem. It consists of two buildings, one in the Ruhama neighbourhood of West Jerusalem, built in 1948, and another in Old City’s Jewish Quarter, built in 1974.