In the article \u201cBetween Yerushalayim DeLita and Jerusalem\u2014The Memorial Inscription from the Bimah of the Great Synagogue of Vilna\u201d Jon Seligman presents an important memorial inscription, that was exposed during excavations of the bimah (the platform for reading the Torah) of the 17th-century Great Synagogue of Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania). The paper describes the new finds associated with the baroque-rococo architecture of the bimah and focuses on the inscription and its meaning. The Hebrew inscription, engraved on a large stone slab, is a complex rabbinic text filled with biblical allusions, symbolism, gematria, and abbreviations. The text describes the donation of a Torah reading table in 1796 in honour of R. \u1e24ayim ben \u1e24ayim and of Sarah by their sons, R. Eliezer and Shmuel. The inscription notes the aliyah (emigration) of \u1e24ayim and Sarah to Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel. The interpretation of the inscription shows the use of multiple messianic motifs. Historical analysis identifies the involvement of the Vilna community with the support of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Ottoman Palestine) and the aliyah of senior scholars and community leaders at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Amongst these figures were \u1e24ayim ben \u1e24ayim and Sarah, with \u1e24ayim ben \u1e24ayim going on to represent the Vilna community in the Land of Israel as its emissary, distributing charitable donations to the scholarly Ashkenazi community resident in Tiberias, Safed, and later Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
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