Four Holy Lands, Four Holy Cities

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Four Holy Lands, Four Holy Cities

Four Holy Lands, Four Holy Cities

A literary epithet for the cities Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed, and Hebron, where there was a longstanding Jewish presence and which became centers of Jewish life.

("And from what we have seen, after that dispute, he merited great honor here, and merited to be a first to Zion and the Four Holy Lands, which not every judge and teacher merits, as is well known to all" - Responsa Mazkeret Moshe, section Yad)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אַרְבַּע אַרְצוֹת הַקֹּדֶשׁ, אַרְבַּע עָרֵי הַקֹּדֶשׁ

Definition (Hebrew)

כִּנּוּי מְלִיצִי לֶעָרִים יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, טְבֶרְיָה, צְפַת וְחֶבְרוֹן שֶׁבָּהֶם הָיְתָה נוֹכְחוּת יְהוּדִית אֲרֻכַּת שָׁנִים וְהָיוּ לְמֶרְכַּז חַיִּים יְהוּדִיִּים.

("וּמִמָּה שֶׁרָאִינוּ שֶׁאַחַר אוֹתוֹ מַחְלֹקֶת זָכָה לְכָבוֹד גָּדוֹל כָּאן, וְזָכָה לִהְיוֹת רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן וְאַרְבַּע אַרְצוֹת הַקֹּדֶשׁ שֶׁלֹּא כָּל דַּיָּן וּמוֹרֶה זוֹכֶה לָזֶה כַּיָּדוּעַ לַכֹּל"- שׁוּ"ת מַזְכֶּרֶת מֹשֶׁה סִימָן יָד)

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