Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, author of the seminal work on Torah, the Ohr HaChaim led the Jewish community in Morocco. Learn about the difficulties the community faced including the tale of how he survived being thrown into a pit of lions. He led a group to make Aliyah to the Land of Israel in the mid 1700s and founded a yeshiva in Jerusalem which still stands to this day.
Find out about how his writings influenced the Baal Shem Tov and the growing Hasidic movement and why the Ohr HaChaim is still revered 281 years after his passing.
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* The Ohr HaChaim - HaModia news
* The Holy Or HaChaim: Keeping the Fire in Purgatory Off - Gal Einai
* The Or Hachaim and the Lion - Gal Einai
* Rabbi Haim Ben Attar – Ohr HaHaim Hakodesh - Hevrat Pinto
* Remembering the Holy Ohr HaChaim - Israel National News
* The Grave that was Saved - Ohr Somayach
* Ohr HaChaim - full text (Hebrew) - Sefaria
* The Witnessing Tree - Wisdom from the Ohr HaChayim - Chabad
* Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar biography - Chabad
* A Good Environment for Torah Study - Rabbi Chaim Ibn Attar - Ascent of Safed
* The Story of the Holy Ohr HaChaim - Esther Nava
* The yahrzeit of the Or Hachayim - Western Wall Heritage Foundation
* Or HaChaim Retrieves Hidden Message from Mitzvah of Returning Lost Objects
* The Miracle of Rabbi Gershon from Kitov - Hebron.com
* The Ohr Hachaim and the Baal Shem Tov - Chabad News
* What We Learn From The Ohr HaChaim - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser
